<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 11"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:filelist.xml@01C83DA6.8B7BA1E0"> <link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="cid:editdata.mso">  <title>Re: plastic flanges</title> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> I did not specify clearly.  This is a console. Sorry.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee)<o:p></o:p> R..P.T. (Registered Piano Technician)<o:p></o:p> AAA Piano Works, Inc.<o:p></o:p> Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults<o:p></o:p> 260.417.1298<o:p></o:p> 260.432.2043<o:p></o:p>     www.aaapianoworks.com<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Joe And Penny Goss [mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:35 PM To: pianotuner@embarqmail.com; <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech List</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: plastic flanges<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> Hi,<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Have you ever seen/had a wood elbow break?<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> My druthers would be the drop action over the compressed action.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> But then with all the new stuff comming out of far away places it <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> is hard to justify reccommending work on anything from 1940 to 1980 <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> in the shape of a box.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools <a href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</a> <a href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt; margin-left:3.4pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> ----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p> </div> <div style='font-color:black'> From: <a href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com" title="pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title="pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptgorg</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:11 PM<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Subject: Re: plastic flanges<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> Hi, Joe, and anyone evesdropping ... you said, about elbows, "Wood is better than the plastic." Why do you say that? With then general sloppiness and slowness of the wire drop-sticker action, what possible difference could it make? Alan Barnard <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Salem</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MO</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid black 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt'> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> Original message From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <IMATUNR@SRVINET.COM>  </IMATUNR@SRVINET.COM>To: "<st1:PersonName w:st="on">Pianotech List</st1:PersonName>" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>  </PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>Received: 12/12/2007 9:18:08 PM Subject: Re: plastic flanges<o:p></o:p> Hi,<o:p></o:p> <div> Wood is better than the plastic. But the cost of replacing is much higher.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Got my last set of wood that replaces the plastic from Pianotec.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> While they work, they are a little shorter. One needs to turn them into the wood 1/16" less<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> to keep the regulation of lost motion near the same.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> If replacing with the plastic, tool # 317 makes easy work of the removal of the old elbow.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools <a href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</a> <a href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com/">www.mothergoosetools.com</a><o:p></o:p> </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt; margin-left:3.4pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> <div> ----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p> </div> <div style='font-color:black'> From: <a href="mailto:bdoepke@verizon.net" title="bdoepke@verizon.net">Brian Doepke</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title="pianotech@ptg.org">'Pianotech List'</a> <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:04 PM<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Subject: plastic flanges<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <o:p> </o:p> </div> While tightening the plastic hammer flanges of a mid 40’s Mason/Hamlin, one of the plastic flanges broke.  Do I need to replace it with another plastic one, or would a wooden one be fine?<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Any specific or weird dimensions to those flanges or are chances good that I can find one from my saved parts bin?<o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> Brian P. Doepke, (dep-kee) <o:p></o:p> R.P.T. (Registered Piano Technician) <o:p></o:p> AAA Piano Works, Inc. <o:p></o:p> Piano Tuning-Repair-Purchase Consults <o:p></o:p> 260.417.1298 <o:p></o:p> 260.432.2043 <o:p></o:p>     www.aaapianoworks.com <o:p></o:p>  <o:p></o:p> </blockquote> </div> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>