Word to the wise - brittle plastic

[Phil Bondi]

>  What possesses a normally sane person like me to be
> willing to work on this piano *again*?

$$?..and who said you were sane?!?

Clyde, all:

Anytime you see something like this piano, with plastic parts, made in the
infancy of plastics manufacturing (post WWll +- 15 years), disclaimer
yourself until you run out of breath, ink, or both.

Plastic made back then had no tensile strength, nor was it impact
resistant..not like today's plastic.

 Clyde, that floor vent had something to do with the degredation of that
plastic also.

If it seems like I am the 'defender of the plastic part' in pianos, take
into consideration my 11 years at a plastics manufacturing facility, part of
which was being on the front line of manufacturing a brand new process(Nylon
and Rubber and sometimes Glass added to Poly Phynolene Oxide(PPO) for
manufacturing a brand new application(Auto exterior - Saturn). In that short
11 years, I saw alot, and learned alot about manufacturing and plastics. It
seems plastics is still living down its 'junk' classification from its early
years.

Take a look around your own house and tell me how much 'junk' you see..

-Phil Bondi (Fl.)
tito@philbondi.com