Plastic elbows

[Pianogreig@AOL.COM]

Hasn't anyone else come across the gummy plastic broken elbows which can't be 
cut out of the wippen slot?  I've found some in nearly all jobs I've done & 
still remember my first encounter with same.  It did give me an opportunity 
to use up a lot of the Penistan repair clips I had on hand to repair the 
wippen sticker slots.  

After that experience I've only used the complete wood elbow replacement 
involving action removal and action cradle.  If it has plastic wippen flanges 
they can be replaced at the same time.  If not plastic then they can be 
tightened;  damper felts & hammers can also be filed more easily with the 
action out.

Bruce