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<P>Hi Ric,</P>
<P>It would be great to rewind and have left the flanges in place, and have just redone the cords...</P>
<P>I think I may swap them out , redo cords, travel any that need it etc.</P>
<P>Fortunately , I still have the originals.<BR></P>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from Ric Brekne <ricbrek@broadpark.no>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> Hi Rick <BR>> <BR>> I see you've got a lot of answers in and no doubt someones already <BR>> supplied you with a good solution. Just thought I'd throw in that <BR>> replacing the silk threads is a really easy job and if thats all thats <BR>> failing the flanges I'd have replaced those and re-installed the <BR>> origionals. The cost of new parts and the amount of work needed to fit <BR>> them often pans out as in your example. <BR>> <BR>> I re-machined a set of new Steinway hammer flanges about a year back <BR>> because the centerpin line was 1 mm farther out on the new ones then the <BR>> origionals... and I can not find a source for new flanges of origional <BR>> dimensions. All the work involved in that really ended up not being <BR>> worth my tim
e. The older O I just got finished with had the same <BR>> problem. I found it much quicker to use the origional flanges <BR>> installing new drop screws. <BR>> <BR>> I get the feeling a lot of folks opt for putting in brand new parts when <BR>> the old ones can be rebushed or refurbished without much work thinking <BR>> they are going to save all kinds of time... and it isnt necessarily so. <BR>> Course many times its more then appropriate to opt for new parts as <BR>> well. But sometimes perhaps it might be just as well or better to use <BR>> the old ones. <BR>> <BR>> Just my 2 cents <BR>> RicB </BLOCKQUOTE>
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