plastic flanges

[John Ross]

Hi,
I am doing a Heintzman now, circa 1949. It has a Pratt-Read action, with
plastic flanges, backchecks and jacks.
Since they got the piano for free, they want it fixed.
So I got the parts from Schaff, and will use 176 flanges, 88 jacks, 88
backchecks,
and 67 damper flanges.
I went with replacing parts rather than complete wippens.
While it is apart, replace all plastic parts, they may seem ok now, but it
is easier
 to do them all now. The butt flanges were all ok, but on removing them 7
broke.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: plastic flanges


> Ditto to the previous posts. What about the Jacks and Backchecks?  You can
> reach the point of diminishing returns quickly !   Is it a Winter?   Tom
> Driscoll
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:39 PM
> Subject: Re: plastic flanges
>
>
> >
> > In a message dated 09/08/01 7:19:36 PM, Tvak@AOL.COM writes:
> >
> > <<" Must I replace all the flanges if I want to sleep at
> > night after selling this piano?">>
> >
> > Tom;
> >  That depends on whether you want pleasant dreams or nightmares! :-)
> > Yes, replace them........... it really doesn't take that long, isn't all
> that
> > expensive and you will feel much better about it.
> > My view.
> > Jim Bryant (FL)
>
>