<html> <font size=3>The supply houses have replacement brackets.  Maybe if you made a tracing<br> of the best sample they could send a close match. Notice I said close. There<br> will be some fitting.<br> <br> Put on your thinking cap,<br> <br> Jon Page<br> <br> At 04:43 AM 11/26/2000 -0700, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite cite>Does anyone know what to do with (grand) action brackets that have<br> "spalled", or cracked, fragmented, alligatored (not sure what word to<br> use)?  They're in a 1927 Premier 4'8" grand, and look as though they<br> were made in the early days of cast aluminum (?) or from "pot metal".<br> The screws into the keyframe can't be tightened or fragments of the<br> action brackets will just break off.  Elsewhere all over the brackets,<br> there are little cracks and flakes of metal coming off -- they're<br> disintegrating.  I think they've also expanded and thrown the action<br> spread and other relationships out, so that it now is un-regulatable.<br> The closest match I could find in any catalog were the Jacob Doll type,<br> so I ordered some and they're close,  but no cigar -- they or the action<br> rails would have to be re-milled to make everything fit and regulate<br> properly.  I suppose new wooden or aluminum or Dural ones could be cut<br> out of 1/2" maple or plate aluminum.    What have other techs done with<br> these?<br> dnereson@dim.com</font></blockquote><br> <div>Jon Page,   piano technician</div> <div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div> <div><a href="mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net</a></div> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </html>