[CAUT] screw-y stuff

[Porritt, David]

Alan:

The more I use Webb’s Wood Rebuilder the more impressed I am with it.  Drill out the splintered wood that’s left, fill hole with WWR and drill a new pilot hole (when it has cured of course).  I used it the other day to repair some keys where some wood had been torn out in the removal of key buttons.  It worked very well.  The only caveat is not trying to fill too small a hole.  It’s hard to get the stuff in a torn up pilot hole for a #4 screw.

dp

David M. Porritt, RPT
dporritt at smu.edu

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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 10:40 AM
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Subject: [CAUT] screw-y stuff

List,

With annual "Stripped Screw Hole Day" repidly approaching here at CalArts, I would appreciate recommendations for four different lid-related screw hole repairs on four different pianos.

Yamaha C7E: screw holes of female (rim-mounted) lid locator hardware (torn out by repeated collisions between lid and immovable object, such as wall)

Baldwin F: lid hinge screw holes; the many short ones on the lid itself (ditto above cause for damage)

Steinway B: stripped out lock-bar screw holes (don't know how this happened)

Steinway D: screw holes in the flyleaf and lid, for the screws that fasten the long "piano" hinge (due to over-tightening and/or handling)

I was planning on installing delignit plugs in the rim of the Yamaha and glue-sizing (possibly with some non-glue material added) for the others.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Alan Eder
The Herb Alpert School of Music
at CalArts

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