Hi Rob, I just finished a similar job on a Mason Hamlin console. Beautiful piano on the outside, but it had plastic backchecks, jack flanges, and damper flanges. I was lucky though, about 20 damper levers were intact and I used those as guides. The new damper levers I got from Schaff, and they were an exact match to the originals. The part number is 3786J. The advice you has received so far has been great. Just to echo what others have said I strongly recommend doing this job in your shop, and be sure to charge enough, it takes a chunk of time. Good luck. David Weiss From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Rob McCall Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 5:29 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Plastic Damper flanges Greetings and happy new year! This is from a 1955 Story & Clark console. Damper flanges are made of extremely brittle plastic. The lightest of touch and they disintegrate in your hands. When I opened the lid on the piano, all the dampers were piled up on top of each other at the bass end. I guess they tilted it when they moved it and the damper flanges self-destructed. Fortunately, all the other flanges on the piano are made of wood. I'm unable to get any specs on the flanges due to the fact that not a single one of them is whole. Best I can estimate, from the best one I could find is that the distance from the center pin to the center of the screw hole is around 15mm, and the spring appears to be about 1" long from it's attachment to the apex of the bend in the spring. Does anyone have any specs for this? Or does it look like the standard spinet flange from Schaff, etc. would work? Also, if anyone has any hints or tips as to how best to sort the pile of damper levers from the mayhem it's in, into the correct order it needs to be in, I'd appreciate it... and no, they aren't numbered... :-/ Regards, Rob McCall McCall Piano Service, LLC www.mccallpiano.com Murrieta, CA 951-698-1875 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120102/454aa85f/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 91330 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120102/454aa85f/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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