<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 8/9/01 6:19:36 PM Central Daylight Time, Tvak@AOL.COM
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I have a piano which I am planning to sell. which has plastic flanges
<BR>throughout the action. (snip) </BLOCKQUOTE> Must I replace all the flanges if I want to
<BR>sleep at
<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">night after selling this piano?
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<BR>Tom Sivak
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<BR>YES. Trying to replace only the few flanges that are broken is only fixing a
<BR>few of the problems. I would recommend you send one of each of the parts to
<BR>Schaff, damper flange and lever, wippen, hammer flange, and ask them to
<BR>replace them with wooden parts. It won't take that long to replace all the
<BR>parts, and in the long run, it will be a lot cheaper. (Make a judgment call
<BR>if you should also replace the hammers. If you do want to do that, then go
<BR>all the way, and replace the hammer, the shank, butt and flange. It's easier
<BR>to replace the whole thing, than to remove the hammer from the shank, and
<BR>replace the flange from the butt.) Also, on the wippen, are the jack and the
<BR>back check plastic, as well as the flange? If so, replace the whole thing.
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<BR>Good luck.
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<BR>Willem
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