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<div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Hi, Joe, and anyone evesdropping ... you said, about elbows, "<font face="Arial" size="2">Wood is better than the plastic."<br/><br/>Why do you say that? With then general sloppiness and slowness of the wire drop-sticker action, what possible difference could it make?</font><br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Joe And Penny Goss"
<imatunr@srvinet.com> </imatunr@srvinet.com><br/>To: "Pianotech List"
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 12/12/2007 9:18:08 PM<br/>Subject: Re: plastic flanges<br/><br/>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wood is better than the plastic. But the cost of replacing is much higher.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Got my last set of wood that replaces the plastic from Pianotec.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">While they work, they are a little shorter. One needs to turn them into the wood 1/16" less</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">to keep the regulation of lost motion near the same.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">If replacing with the plastic,</font><font face="Arial" size="2"> tool # 317 makes easy work of the removal of the old elbow.</font></div>
<div>Joe Goss RPT<br/>Mother Goose Tools<br/><a href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</a><br/><a href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com/">www.mothergoosetools.com</a></div>
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<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="pianotech@ptg.org" href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">'Pianotech List'</a> </div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:04 PM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> plastic flanges</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">While tightening the plastic hammer flanges of a mid 40’s Mason/Hamlin, one of the plastic flanges broke. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Do I need to replace it with another plastic one, or would a wooden one be fine?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial">Any specific or weird dimensions to those flanges or are chances good that I can find one from my saved parts bin?</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-no-proof: yes">Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee)</span></font></b></strong><span style="mso-no-proof: yes"> </span></p>
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