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<font size=3>Jim,<br>
American was re-making them a few years ago. They weren't for a
while.<br>
Check with them. A few years ago I worked over a Quarter Grand and<br>
replaced all the wippen flanges with their new brass replacements.<br>
<br>
I annealed a set and they are holding. but for safety I keep a bunch of
new<br>
ones in a small plastic bag hung along side the action (extras from the
<br>
set I ordered).<br>
<br>
Good Luck.<br>
<br>
Jon Page<br>
<br>
At 06:52 PM 5/28/99 -0400, you wrote:<br>
>et al;<br>
> I have a Chickering about ready to go home and all the tuning is
<br>
>breaking/making worse the brass whippen/wippen/repetition lever
flanges. You <br>
>know the little cracks that develop in the pin holding groove
:-(. <br>
>There were no broken or loose flanges before I started tuning.<br>
><br>
> If my understanding is correct these particular flanges are
not <br>
>available...right?<br>
>Question: Has anyone ever tried "silver soldering" these
thingees? Think it <br>
>would work?<br>
>Jim Bryant (FL)<br>
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<br>
<div>Jon Page, Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
<a href="mailto:jpage@capecod.net" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jpage@capecod.net</a></div>
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