Pin Block to Back Post Repair

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Bill,
Is the plate too high or too low for the screws to make proper grip on the
wood?
>From your description it sounds likely that the wrong plate was installed
in this piano?
Joe Goss

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> From: Maxpiano@AOL.COM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Pin Block to Back Post Repair
> Date: Sunday, March 28, 1999 9:03 PM
> 
> List-
> 
> I have repaired a number of pianos with back posts pulling loose from the
pin
> block, but I have a customer with a Story & Clark console (1965 vintage)
that
> poses a couple of problems I have not run into before:
> 
> 1.  The top of the back posts is covered by a strip of wood that has
stayed
> attached to the pin block.  I assume I will have to pry it loose in order
to
> get glue down between the pin block and the back posts, and to be sure I
have
> the crack closed up when clamping.
> 
> 2.  There seems to be a problem with my usual method of bolting the pin
block.
> I usually bore holes all the way through using the lag screw holes in the
> plate and pin block, but in this piano those holes go down the glue joint
> between the above mentioned cover strip and the back posts/fillers.  With
the
> bolts just grazing the top of the area I want to anchor, I fear the
> possibility of failure.   Anyone have a good solution for anchoring the
> repair?
> 
> One more item:  does anyone know what glue Story and Clark would have
been
> using at that time?  What glue would be likely to hold the best?
> 
> Bill Maxim, RPT