Ooops! Is my face red!! Sorry Tom, I obviously misread. You got enough good advice by now so all that's left is ... good Luck! Greg Newell At 06:15 PM 6/13/2002, you wrote: >In a message dated 6/13/02 4:06:03 PM, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes: > ><< The damper levers come with wires. So you have to not only take the wires >out >of the plastic ones from the I&P, but also out of the new ones. >> > >Nope. They come from Schaff with or without wires, which is what got me >thinking about this in the first place. > >And Greg, the damper levers themselves are plastic, not just the flanges. So >the whole lever and flange needs replacing. On the postive side, it would be >easy to take the wires out of the old ones. I'd just crumble 'em like a >plastic elbow. > >What I don't know is: would putting the old wires/heads on the new levers be >easy? Would the damper wire slip into the lever like a hammer shank into a >butt? Add a little glue, and you're all done? Or would they have to be >forced in? > >I guess I'm gun shy on the wire bending because I just got through replacing >damper levers/heads/felts on a Mason&Hamlin console. The previous technician >had thrown out the old damper levers, so I had to start from scratch. It was >quite time consuming, because I had never had to do this before. I know it >would be much easier to simply match the bends in the old damper wires. >Still, easiest of all seems to be putting that old wire in the new lever... > >Tom Sivak Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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