Bob, I have had to replace these before, and I need to do another one - my own Baldwin F has a split! The last time I made a new one out of hard maple, yes. If you don't have a shop for it I believe Schaff has a duplication service, and maybe other technicians could do it as a service as well. Don Mannino _____ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Bob Hull Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:38 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Hammer flange rail split I have a customer with a Baldwin D (1960's era) that has a split in the hammer flange rail. I have already repaired several stripped screw holes in this rail and now this is some further deterioration. I need to decide whether to try to repair this or replace the whole rail. Just as I finished rebuilding the action this summer, the screw holes got tired of all the work and several gave up the ghost. I don't do the tuning on this piano because of the distance but they call me for repairs that the regular tuner doesn't do. I haven't seen the split yet - they just told me what he saw. I believe other screw holes are on the verge of giving up their grip. So, even if I expoxied this split there could be more problems later. Ideas? Would you make a new one from hard rock maple? Thanks for input. Bob Hull -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090122/990d3101/attachment.html>
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