<HTML>In a message dated 2/16/2003 4:4= 3:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, Wimblees@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If you're talking about the thin slats of wood on which= the music desk slides, this is the way I remove them. First, using a 1" chi= sel, I break the glue joint from front to back, by hitting the chisel right = where the slat and the rim meet. The, I use a 1/4" chisel and start at the b= ack and gently tap the rail out. You might need to use the 1" chisel several= times to break that glue joint.</BLOCKQUOTE> Are you holding the 1" c= hisel in a horizontal or vertical direction. I would imagine that held horiz= ontaly you would split right through the slide but I dunno' since that's wha= t I always end up doing anyway. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> There is another way I have heard about, although I have never done it. You = can plane off the slat even with the side of the case, and then install a br= ass or nickel slide, available at the supply houses. </BLOCKQUOTE> I have, on accasion (when I've obliterated the existing slide attempting to = remove it) found that I can cut a new mortise in the case using a biscuit jo= iner, moving it an inch or so at a time. The slot thickness seems almost per= fect. But then I have to make a new slide. I'm trying to re-use the old one = here.</HTML>