Holy moly! I want to throw up! Let´s get it over with, put me into a tokamak! If a blush is red I look like the inside of an aorta! It´s been years since I did that. We have very few spinets, and the ones we have don´t generally have plastic parts that are failing. Please forgive me, I was suffering from a hangover and a case of "Immensus Stupidimus"! Kristinn Leifsson IQ= -273°C Reykjavík, Iceland "It´s better to keep one´s mouth closed and appear stupid, than to open it and remove all doubt." (Some guy) At 17:07 28.5.2000 -0400, you wrote: >Kristinn, > >If you've ever done this job you know the new elbows have no threads to start >with. The only question I've had about Bob's method (and I've not tried it, >yet) is whether the new elbow will be impossible to remove, should you ever want >to do so in the future. Although I'm not quite sure why you would want to do >that; by the time the new elbows are shot, the rest of the piano will be long >gone. > >Regards, >Clyde Hollinger, RPT >Lititz, PA, USA > >Kristinn Leifsson wrote: > >> Bob, >> >> this would totally destroy the threads in the elbow. >> Have you seen the long term effect with this procedure? >> >> Would the elbows be more prone to clicking or being wobbly with this method >> after a certain time, since the plastic contracts because of the heat (I >> would think) >> >> Kristinn Leifsson, >> Reykjavík, Iceland >> >> > >> >To even go further in simplifiying this procedure: when putting the new >> elbow >> >on the lifter wire, I heat the wire with a small portable propane torch and >> >just push the wire into the new elbow. No spinning needed just push. It >> >cools quite quickly and you have avoided quite a bit of tedious labor. Not >> >to mention probably saving 20 minutes of time. Just be careful you don't >> >have an accident and burn the house down... >> > >> > Bob Bergantino, RPT >> >Willoughby Hills, Ohio >> > >> > > > > >
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