Use a pencil type soldering iron on the old elbow to melt a slot in the narrow end until the center pin is exposed then simply pull the old one off. Randy Mangus, RPT In a message dated 12/7/2009 9:58:32 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, pianotuner440 at hotmail.com writes: Dear Friends, I have a Lester spinet action belonging to a long-time customer on my bench (that is, my dining room table) that needs new elbows. I thought replacing the original plastic elbows would be easy, but only the broken ones are brittle; the unbroken ones are hard as concrete. How do you replace these? Unpin them to put the new ones on? I don't want to risk breaking the wippen by trying to bend the old plastic ones. I'd be grateful for your advice, and my wife will be thrilled to get the dining room table back. Thanks, Greg Livingston PS- I have not figured out how to search the archives, though I've tried; I need help in that area, too. ___________________________________________________ Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service 781-237-9178 Piano Technicians Guild, associate member (Boston chapter) * * * Always remember September 11, 2001 * * * ____________________________________ Chat with Messenger straight from your Hotmail inbox. _Check it out_ (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/hotmail_bl1/hotmail_bl1.aspx?ocid=PID 23879::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-ww:WM_IMHM_4:092009) = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091207/0148fa4d/attachment.htm>
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