mystery buzz

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In a message dated 1/18/2007 11:23:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
rnossaman at cox.net writes:


I'm  surprised you found a cracked one. I have a can full of 
the big plastic  buttons (maybe 50 or 60 of them), that I think 
I acquired from an expired  technician's estate sale or auction 
long enough ago that I don't really  remember. I use them when 
I glue bridges to soundboards. Being plastic,  they aren't 
prone to splitting when I crank the screw down, and I replace  
them with the wooden buttons after the glue has dried and I 
don't have  to apply enough screw pressure to risk breaking 
them. I've used them over  and over for more than 25 years, and 
haven't managed to break but a  couple.

Ron N




Ron,  et al
 
    I was surprised as well, more that they were  plastic.  They failed 
alright 5 or 6 of them, maybe these were made from  the same stuff as the old 
plastic elbows although they weren't of the  disintegrating variety just cracked 
and I think the piano was from the 70's,  Maybe they were cranked down to much 
at the factory ?
 
 
Tom Ayers
Highland NY

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