upr. brass flange repair & Annealing brass

[Mike McCoy]

Hi John,

 I would love to see that handout about annealing brass, it was a question I was going to post to the list one of these days. A person in my Chapter claimed years ago to have done that using an outdoor gas grill, I GUESS that's possible but from what I have read you need to get it up to about 650 degrees, don't know if you can do that with a gas grill, maybe in the direct flame?

 I'm working on a early Vose & Sons now with a brass rail and 80 of the 88 screw plates are broken but the rail SEEMS ok but I'm debating on leaving it as is, trying to anneal the brass or eliminate it entirely ala Spurlock.

Mike

Mike McCoy RPT
Chapters 170 & 190 PTG
Langhorne, Pa
mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ross" <jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:27 AM
Subject: Re: upr. brass flange repair


> Hi Patrick,
> I, when using repair clips, have been tempted to use the repair
> flanges. They look like they would do a much better job.
> The downside is, that you would have to remove the full section, and
> cut out the bad notes. This would be much more labour intensive.
> There was a class given, in Dearborn, in 1996, about annealing the
> brass, it was given by a William J. Belamut. It had a one page
> handout, which I could e-mail, if that is allowed.
> If too many are gone, I would have a new section made my Schaff.
> Regards,
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia.
> jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com>
> To: "Open Technicians" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:12 PM
> Subject: upr. brass flange repair
> 
> 
> | Dear List,
> | It's been awhile since I've repaired an upright with brass flanges.
> | Other than Gerald Foye's 2 page article in the Nov. 1982 Piano
> | Technicians Journal, is there any article or brief note on optimal
> | procedures for using repair clips? I'm seldom really happy with my
> | results (and I have to revive a couple pianos with brass flange
> | problems this week).
> | Thanks,
> | Patrick Draine
> |
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