<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16437"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff text=#000000> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi David,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>My thinking is that the plastic is continuing to cure and is growing causing the centers to tighten Best to both oil and</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>shrink the bushing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss BSMusEd MMusEd RPT<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=David@piano.plus.com href="mailto:David@piano.plus.com">David Boyce</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 26, 2011 1:00 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [pianotech] Tight plastic flanges</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=Arial>Centres have become tight on the little Neindorf piano i tuned for a customer today.  <BR><BR>It's a late 60s or early 70s piano with a "Pianic" action, and when I took out a hammer and the wippen/jack assembly for one note to check which centres were tight, happily the date was printed on that particular hammer, June 1969.  Jack centres are fine, but hammer flanges and wippen flanges tight.<BR><BR>Since the flanges are plastic, what would be the more likely cause - swelling of the plastic flanges with age, or swelling of the centre pins? Would it be fair to assume that it's more likely to be the plastic flanges, since the jack centres were OK, and they are pinned the other way, with the bushed hole in the wood, not the plastic?<BR><BR>Use of Protek CLP helped, making the action much less sluggish, and, basically, acceptable to play.  But it hasn't of itself gotten the centres as free as they should be.<BR><BR>Best regards,<BR><BR>David.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>