<HTML>To all Today I taught myself a couple of lessons.  First of all, I will never= break the following rule ever again: Don't ever...ever....even TOUCH a plastic flange unless it is glued to the d= oorknob of the exit door and even only then if there's no other way out. I replaced a set of elbows today.  I knew that it had plastic wippen f= langes.  Why was I so careless snapping that first elbow in place?&nbs= p; The price?  Removal of the spinet action to replace the cracked pl= astic wippen flange.  The other 87 elbows snap in place with no further problem due to extreme car= e on my part.  Adjust the lost motion and...play the piano.  Hmm= m...the hammer on middle C is double striking.  I'll just move the bac= kcheck forward and... (What was I thinking...?) Out comes the spinet action to replace the newly broken plastic wippen flang= e.  While replacing the wippen flange I brush against a damper lever a= nd...now I can replace the plastic damper flange on that damper lever and...= the one next to it which I also bumped into with the screwdriver. Back goes the action and as I play the piano I realize that the damper lever= on D5 is not damping due to it's also being cracked.  (I did look at = them all while they were out of the piano, but it was not visually apparent.= )  Now, I was nowhere near D5 so I wonder if this was a pre-existing p= roblem, which leads me to the next lesson I learned: Check the piano first to see if there are any problems.  BTW, my original service call on this piano was 6 months ago at which time I= replaced 4 elbows and informed the client of the existence of all the plast= ic flanges, and the costs involved in replacing them.  I advised him N= OT to put any money into this Lester spinet, other than replacing those 4 el= bows that had already broken.  Six months later he called to tell me t= o go ahead with the elbows.   In the back of my mind I was thinki= ng, wasn't this the piano with all the plastic flanges?  But rather th= an say anything, I just went ahead and made the appointment.  Which le= ads me to the last lesson for the day: Take better notes on each piano for future reference. I rarely share my experiences with others on the list.   Hope thi= s was worth reading... Tom Sivak</HTML>