<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.4.1352574003.25904.pianotech@ptg.org" type="cite">But when i started using them, they would break, or not quite fit. It didn't take me long to figure out that it was cheaper in the long run to buy a new replacement part, than to spend the time redoing the same repair over and over, until one of the parts actually worked. </blockquote> On the other hand, sometimes it's the band new parts that don't quite fit, and if you had salvaged parts from an old action of the exact make and model, that could save a lot of bother.  Where, for instance, would one get a new action part for the Johann Jacob Bender action with the curly-wurly wippen that I posted a picture of some weeks ago!  Point taken about brittleness though. Maybe there is a middle ground between running the salvage idea as a business in its own right, and simply scrapping all the parts. Best regards, David. </body> </html>