<HTML><HEAD> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19088"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">Patrick,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">Not no, H%$# NO!<G> First of all, I've redesigned many actions for Chickerings Using Pratt Read and Renner parts. There are ways of putting a new action in a piano. Plastic, IMSO, is not it. It's too stiff and clunky for my likes. But, thanks for the suggestion.<G> I have all of the W.N.& G. action parts kit. I've done the numbers, etc.Just didn't add up for this olde duffer.<G> My point to this exercise is to see if I can save the customer some big bucks and have the piano play as it was originally designed. (which I consider to be correct for the instrument, as this is a pre-Aeolian thang.<G>)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face="MS Sans Serif">Joe</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jpdraine@gmail.com href="mailto:jpdraine@gmail.com">J Patrick Draine</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</A>;<A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 7/26/2011 8:44:30 AM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [pianotech] Chickering Grand Hammer Flanges?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>Joe, <DIV>I don't have answers to your annealing question but you might consider calling Jude Reveley for information on how he redesigned  a couple Chickering actions: WN&G action rail, WN&G action parts, back action, and a new and redesigned keyboard. Probably more than you were planning on, but perhaps worth considering. If it's the same model Jude has done all the design work on maybe you could work out a deal . . .</DIV> <DIV>Patrick Draine</DIV> <DIV>Jude's neighbor, here in cool Billerica<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 1:04 AM, Joseph Garrett <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class=gmail_quote>Anyone have an idea the difference of expansion rates of Steel and Brass.<BR>I'm into a Chickering Grand and am planning on trying to anneal them<BR>puppies. </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>