<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Richard. I haven't replaced any elbows yet but everything I've read says the snap ons are absolutely the way to go. Do yourself a favor and replace all of them because they're all going to break.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michelle Smith</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 4, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Richard Morgan wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; ">I just looked at a spinet on which half of the plastic elbows at the bottom of the lifter rods are broken--two broke as I played a note to check pitch. None broke as I looked at them, however.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; ">Before I get home to my books, I thought I'd ask the wise list for some info. Surely you don't replace them with the same thing? (and don't anyone say: "Who's Shirley?"!!)</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; ">Thanks in advance,</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; ">Richard Morgan</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; "> </SPAN></DIV></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>