[CAUT] Replacing plastic flange on spinet wippen

[Becker, Lawrence (beckerlr)]

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Wippen, not elbow!  How did you?
 
When encountering this on spinets, I have just condemned the pianos.  On a
M&H console, I bid (oh, way too little) to replace hammer flanges, entire
wippens, and entire damper flanges, including bending the damper wires.  Do
this on a fine spring day when you're aching to be outside, and you can
achieve masochism nirvana.
 
Lawrence Becker, RPT
Piano Technician
College-Conservatory of Music
University of Cincinnati
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Olson [mailto:jlolson@cal.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 8:30 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Replacing plastic flange on spinet wippen
 
I encountered an "interesting" (as in Chinese curse) repair the other day --
replacing a shattered plastic wippen on a Lester "plasticized" spinet.
Didn't want to remove the action, since that promised to shatter more of
those wonderful plastic flanges, plus be ridiculously time-consuming (I'd
ask how much you all would charge to remove a spinet action and repair this
one flange -- along with the others that would likely break -- but I
wouldn't want to risk offending the antitrust gods yet again:-).
 
Anyhow, to make a long story short, though no less painful, I finally
managed to replace the **($$#@! flange.  I won't describe my methods;
rather, I'm hoping to hear from anyone here what techniques, magical or
scientific or otherwise, they might employ toward this end.
 
Best,
 
Jeff O

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