Hi Mickey, Replace them all. To get a quantity the same size, just wrap the cord, around a piece of dowel and cut with a razorblade. Make a jig on a piece of wood, that accepts the screw hole, and put a nail in that gives you the exact size loop as an unbroken one. The cord is available from Schaff or any of the suppliers. A nylon fishing line would work also. Use CA glue, it sets up fast. Regards, John M. Ross jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mickey Kessler" <markmilo@znet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 6:14 PM Subject: upright flanges with threads > Hi all, > > The piano I was working on the other day was a quite lovely old > Gildemeester & Kroeger upright. The hammer butts have their own little > return springs, held by threads attached to the flanges. (I understand > from one of the catalogs I have that Yamaha uses a similar arrangement.) > > So -- my question is this. A large number of these little threads have > bitten the proverbial dust, snapped right at the center. Is there an easy > fix, or am I going to have to cut a bunch of new threads and somehow glue > them in place? What kind of thread should I use? What kind of glue? How > critical is the length of the thread, or does it just have to provide some > tension? > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Mickey Kessler >
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