<WBR>   Considering the price of shanks there's no way to feasibly resurrect these parts even if there was a method I'd trust.  Well ..unless you have the magic wand...grin<br>   Wippens...maybe<br>   Dale<br> <br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_0_35a30fc5-f4a5-4d2f-ae03-d0ddff7ae936 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">> Ron <br> > Was this on the Shank or the wippen <#> or both?  <br> Oh yea, sorry. These were hammer shanks and flanges. I've never had a set of wippen flanges seize up enough to not work. <br>  <br> >In the cases I > mentioned replacing the flanges should remove the source of the green > scourge/crud prolonging function. <br> > Dale <br>  <br> Quite possibly so. <br> Ron N <br> </div> <div id='u8CA5534C46F7A19-123C-1F94' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Supercharge your AIM. Get the <A title="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" href="http://download.aim.com/client/aimtoolbar?NCID=aolcmp00300000002586" target="_blank">AIM toolbar</A> for your browser.</FONT> </div>