I'm old school and use the vice grip at the top of the old elbow as a "stop" for the new elbow. This is a good idea, as long as the new elbows are the same dimensions as the new ones. Loosening the wooden dowels definitely helps! ...I much prefer to do this job on my bench, especially that last one!! I just break the old elbows, remove the stickers, lay them all out on the unfinished side of the bottom panel of the piano that I've laid out on the customer's floor, and go to work right at the piano. (that is, if they're all breakable; check first so you don't crack any of the whippens trying to break the old elbows. DAMHIK.) Daniel Carlton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090206/78bc10c6/attachment.html>
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