Plastic elbows

[Pianogreig@AOL.COM]

Jim & Rodney 

Rodney well described the gummy situation, but I've found that using an old 
center pin cutter only gets it's jaws trapped in the mess & while trying to 
extract them the thin slot side gets broken. I did try a few times extracting 
the pin but during repinning I couldn't get the pin in straight enough & 
ended up breaking the same wood.

The gummy bears are usually at the ends & I've never encountered one with the 
heat rod so I've thought considering that the extremes get much less use 
(especially on a spinet) maybe sitting idle for a long time has something to 
do with it?

BTW, I once finally found a way to repair a broken plastic wippen flange (on 
a Gulbransen, not worth even this much work) w/o removing the action. After 
failed attempts, including CA glue which I should have known would only 
crumble everything, I removed the wippen & what was left of the flange, 
replaced it with a wooden flange, cutting the bottom off at the middle of the 
screw hole, applied Titebond & fit it in over the screw, holding til the glue 
set.  This was not fun either.  

This was in a church basement; in the choir room is a Mathusek drop action & 
in the church a salvaged Schomacker x-player grand with the original goldtone 
strings.  They did manage recently to install a magnificent new pipe organ.

Bruce