Bill, List, No I haven't put a flange on a flat surface as you suggest. Good idea as that could reveal traveling issues. The flanges just look squished. I have picts. Try www.pnotec.com/photos or email me at remoody@midstatesd.net Regarding the jack and flanges I must decide whether it is better to seek them out, remove and replace on to original wippens, or order new wippens ca $7.00 my cost. The jack I am looking for comes from the SnS wip with large heel as pictured in Schaff or Pianotek catalog. ---ric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Spreading flanges on Steinway upright > At 2:26 PM -0600 10/27/03, R Moody wrote: > >Also is there a source for individual jacks? I hate to buy a whole new > >wip assembly just because a jack lost its heel. > >Schaff and Pianotek don't show them. > > Ric, > > I've got a brown bag of stray Stwy vertical parts. Email me a a photo > (also containg a machinst rule, for reference). > > I've seen spreading wippen flanges, but in a HS practice room Baldwin > 243. They were the result of flange screws being cranked down during > the extremely dry months, and six months around the annual cycle, > the flanges. puffing up and around the winter-tightened fasteners. > Have you taken a flange off and examined it on a flat surface > (granite surface block or cast iron machine top)? > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "I gotta go ta woik...." > ...........Ian Shoales, Duck's Breath Mystery Theater > +++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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