At 09:31 AM 10/4/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Conrad, > >When those pins break off, I will usually punch the remainder out and >put a 2" brass screw through the hole and into the desk part. I've found >some here that had a short 16 penny masonry nail driven through the hole >and into the desk. The nail is hard and has flutes on it which dig into >the brass hole and keeps it from rotating out. > >Eric > >Eric Wolfley, RPT >Supervising Piano Technician >College-Conservatory of Music >University of Cincinnati Well... Things is different when you gets deep into 'em... The C and E model music desks which were broken are now back in place and functional. The splintering wood got clamped together, and I found one piece which had completely separated. The broken pin got replaced by a short section of unused Dampp-Chaser grand hanging rod which I sunk into the wood part. I thought that the brass tubes had gone missing, so I bored out big enough to put in plate bushings, inserted the D/C rod with enough yellow Elmers to squeeze out and fill in the gap. Of course, after I'd done this, I found the tube hiding in the action... Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076 - Right now, I'm hoping to live until my age matches my golf score, - Until then, I'll have to be content to have my IQ match my handicap.
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