I have seen this discussion and I wish to give my concern for the
repair idea.  The plastic in a PianoLodeon is very brittle and shipping
the instrument jostles it and will almost certainly cause a failure in
this.  You can disassemble it and send only the player part for
restoring.

Also, if the instrument is trying to play you can do the following:

1. Make sure it is set up correctly and no screws are missing in the
action.   Crazy glue does a pretty good job in tightening the screw
holes that are cracked.

2. Replace the tracker bar tubing.  It's inevitably cracked and loose.

3. Replace the drive pulley.

You will need to do those maintenance steps anyway so it may be enough.

Eli Shahar
music_box_man@hotmail.com.geentroep [delete ".geentroep" to reply]

P.S.: My PianoLodeon entertains my guests in the upstairs bathroom
after it was suggested I needed a piano upstairs!