<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:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Rob,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I just finished a similar job on a Mason Hamlin console.  Beautiful piano on the outside, but it had plastic backchecks, jack flanges, and damper flanges.  I was lucky though, about 20 damper levers were intact and I used those as guides.    The new damper levers  I got from Schaff, and they were an exact match to the originals.  The part number is 3786J.  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The advice you has received so far has been great.  Just to echo what others have said I strongly recommend doing this job in your shop, and be sure to charge enough, it takes a chunk of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good luck.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Weiss<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob McCall<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 02, 2012 5:29 AM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [pianotech] Plastic Damper flanges<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings and happy new year!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This is from a 1955 Story & Clark console.  Damper flanges are made of extremely brittle plastic. The lightest of touch and they disintegrate in your hands. When I opened the lid on the piano, all the dampers were piled up on top of each other at the bass end. I guess they tilted it when they moved it and the damper flanges self-destructed. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Fortunately, all the other flanges on the piano are made of wood.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I'm unable to get any specs on the flanges due to the fact that not a single one of them is whole. Best I can estimate, from the best one I could find is that the distance from the center pin to the center of the screw hole is around 15mm, and the spring appears to be about 1" long from it's attachment to the apex of the bend in the spring.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any specs for this?  Or does it look like the standard spinet flange from Schaff, etc. would work?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Also, if anyone has any hints or tips as to how best to sort the pile of damper levers from the mayhem it's in, into the correct order it needs to be in, I'd appreciate it...  and no, they aren't numbered...  :-/<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'>Rob McCall<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'>McCall Piano Service, LLC<br><a href="http://www.mccallpiano.com">www.mccallpiano.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'>Murrieta, CA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Optima","serif";color:black'>951-698-1875<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=940 height=703 id="_x0030_b2ae723-b68f-4097-a216-7b7dc0fb31b2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CCC983.30226140"><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>