Beware of New Weltmeisters

[John Doe]

Wurlitzer Used bakeilite slides, they are very fragile. I had one that broke. I was able to fix it by laying it on a flat surface with a piece of plastic cut from a baggie under the repair area. I taped everything down so it was lined up and used "gap filling" cyanoacrylate glue on the break. Let it harden for half an hr than untaped and carefully peeled the baggie off. I used a file with the part on the table to remove burrs and high spots.

Switching temporarily back to the slides...

Good improvisation- with due caution you can actually do a lot with superglue. (Cuts both ways of course; a lot of good or a lot of bad!)

I took a thin strip of credit card and sanded it down so it was thin enough to slide smoothly without undue bulging and used it under the stub of the existing slide and under the extension (also a chopped up bit of credit card stacked four layers high) with the catchment for the register mechanism arm on top of it. It acted as a joining underlay twixt the two where they abutted each other end to end. Cyanoacrylate adhesives do really well on that type of plastic.

 

[jollyrogeraccordions]

Ah. Yes, I was thinking about deconstructing them, as they are useless. I should give it a try. Problems to overcome: getting the corners off without destroying the card…and to reuse the corners as they will have been squashed to hold them on.

 

[Ventura]

at the club meeting today a young lady brought her Rainbow Weltmeister Rubiin
model and i must admit i was favorably impressed with the quality and
playability of the instrument

 

[kimric]

I have had luck getting corners of of instruments by heating them with a 50 watt soldering iron with a blob of solder on the tip to speed heat transfer. I hook the edge of the corner with a pic and apply tension as I heat it, they typically come right off then.

 

[Dingo40]

Does this draw out the work hardening: are they reusable?
Do you have/use corner pliers ?

 

[Beemer]

Inexplicable!
I keep thinking of the old saying :
"Anyone can build a bridge that stands up, but it takes an engineer to build one that only just stands up!"

Is that not reverse engineering

 

[kimric]

I dont think it affects the work hardening much since you would have to heat it up a lot hotter ,or hold it at this lower temp for many hours.
You can reuse them if they are not marked up by the process of getting them off. They are mild steel so they tolerate abuse pretty well.