<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2838" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>You might read this (and save yourself a lot of time) https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/2005-April/171092.html Also, you used to be able to buy the elbows directly from Vagias and save some money, don't know if you still can. I leave the action IN the piano (removing drop sticker actions is such a PITA) but I remove all the wires after snipping away the old rotten plastic. I melt on the new elbows, reinstall the stickers and regulate. It doesn't matter if you get each sticker back where it used to live because some regulation (hammer resting lightly on the rest rail, minimum lost motion) is necessary after replacing elbows by any method. The whole thing takes about an hour. Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Morgan To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: 04/04/2006 2:07:33 PM Subject: Steinbach plastic elbows 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. 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?"!!) Thanks in advance, Richard Morgan</DIV></BODY></HTML>