Rim Repair reply

[Jon Page]

Why not just apply epoxy and clamp allowing the screw
holes to fill with epoxy and then drill into that.

Jon Page


At 10:16 PM 5/13/98 -0400, you wrote:
>The wood on this piano has not been too badly damaged.  The lamination
>are seperated a little.  Soemone suggested I install maple plugs, but I
>don't have a plug making device.  
>
>A local rebuilder says wood glue will work and to plug the holes with
>hammer shank wood and glue. Of course the wood grain would not be
>correctly oriented with hammer shank wood. But he feels certain that it
>would hold well.
>
>You are  right about how it was damaged.
>
>Thanks
>Frank Cahill
>N.Va.
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