<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Hi Terry,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I had one where they were semi-stuck, and I used a nut driver on a power screw driver. Only a couple shattered.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I think that is because the pressure is evenly distributed.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 24, 2004 12:28 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Rubber Nuts Replacement on Spinet</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Looked at a 1962 Wurly spinet today with the rubber nuts on the key ends. Of course, the rubber was hard and brittle. However, in this case, the rubber seemed to also be fused to both the metal fork thing on the key end as well as the threaded rod that goes to the wippen. I've replaced sets of rubber nuts before, but only when they came off reasonably easy. This appears to me to have the potential to be a time consuming nightmare of a job where each fork and each threaded rod would require quite a bit of tedious cleaning of hard rubber before installing and adjusting the new nuts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone with experience with this situation have any advice? Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>