Your(butt flange) choice, please

[Farrell]

Ron, you obviously have not read the marketing material regarding Kawai ABS
plastic parts. Don't you know that they are 400 times stronger than wooden
action parts. You can drive a cement truck over them and not break them. I
believe they also survive meteor impacts.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: Your(butt flange) choice, please


>
> >
> > What you are talking about is common with many action including Renner.
> > Surprisingly enough the same system on the plastic Kawai flange does not
come
> > loose, I guess it boils down to how well the action parts were seasoned
(or
> > dried) the type of timber used and the grain orientation in the
individual
> > part.
> > ---------------------------
> > Tony Caught ICPTG
>
>
>
> Tony,
> The Kawai system with the plastic action parts wouldn't get loose because
the
> plastic doesn't respond to humidity changes like wood does. That's THE
primary
> reason to use ABS for action parts.
>
> Ron N