<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2">FWIW....As much disdain as these parts have received I once repinned an entire Stwy D action in 1975 ish to optimize the friction. (2 to4 grams) and the parts are still in service, yes... in the same </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">piano<font size="2">. Friction is not bad after all these years buried in a theatre in Merced</font></font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2">   What's that you say? are these gen-u-whine Stwy parts? Yup and <u>they don't make em like that no more.</u> But why not?.....nevermind.</font></font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2"> Call Kent and Get while they're hot.</font></font><br> <br> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; clear: both; "><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; ">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@gmail.com><br> To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Wed, Oct 24, 2012 11:06 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] teflon era shanks and flanges<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_4c1bbc25-c175-47e8-a105-f19ae6f13bce"> <div>For reasons that are not entirely clear, I have 88 unused Steinway shanks and flanges from the teflon era. Photo attached.</div> <div> </div> <div>I think I remember reading that some can still use these things.</div> <div>  </div> <div>I you are interested in making use of them, make an offer.</div> <div> </div> <div>Amazing what one can find buried in piano tech shops....</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Kent Swafford</div> <div> </div> </div>  <br> </div> </div> </font>