[CAUT] Replacing plastic flange on spinet wippen

[Jim Busby]

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Hi Lawrence,

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This is when I give them a referral to another technician... (one I
don't really care for)

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JB

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From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Becker, Lawrence (beckerlr)
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:30 AM
To: 'College and University Technicians'
Subject: RE: [CAUT] Replacing plastic flange on spinet wippen

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Wippen, not elbow!  How did you?

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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.

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Lawrence Becker, RPT

Piano Technician

College-Conservatory of Music

University of Cincinnati

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-----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

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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:-).

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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.

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Best,

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Jeff O


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