<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Barnard asked: "<FONT = face="Times New Roman" size=3>To Joe ... What replacement tops do you use when (a) replacing = ivory, and (b) replacing plastic/ivorine/cellulose?<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, Missouri</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For Ivory, I use Ivory!<G> For plastic/Ivorine/cellulose, I use .050" or .060" Ivorine. For fronts, = I've been using .030" material from PianoTech, but I'm not real fond of the stuff, = as it is the same damned material as the "moulded" keytops stuff!!! It is = easily scratched and is EXTREMELY difficult to buff w/o galling the damned = stuff!! Grrrrrr! I asked them and they said: "Gee, we don't have any problem = with it, when we replace key tops/fronts." Like I'm some kind of idiot er sumpin' = Grrrr! Unfortunately, they are the only ones that have front material that is = thin enough. Schaff has a bunch of the stuff they inherited from APSCO, that = is actually "moulded"! BUT! It is, dimensionally TOO SMALL for most key = sets! Yikes! Go figger!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>