In Providence, Chris Robinson gave a technique for this. First take large wood screws and make the head narrower but larger than the plate bolt hole. Screw them into the bolt holes. Install plate and adjust height with a screw driver throught the plate bolt holes. I think one may need to use pipe clamps and lengths of wood to help hold the plate down. Once the plate is set to the correct height, remove the plate and install the dowels on either sides of the screws and trim flush to screwhead; remove screws, thank Chris. The only thing better than this list is a convention. Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 08:59 PM 3/29/99 -0500, you wrote: >The recent thread on removing bass strings brought this up briefly. > >How do you set a grand plate that sets on wooden dowels so that the >plate goes in 'unstressed'? It's easy on the Baldwins where the plate >just sets there on the bolts. But on many pianos the plate sets on >either wooden blocks, or dowels. > >I'm curious if anyone has a good technique for getting all of those >dowels or blocks to come into contact with the bottom of the plate at >the same time so that the plate isn't put under excessive stresses just >being bolted into the case. In the past I've generally come pretty >close to duplicating what came out, but I'm thinking I can do better. > >Any thoughts??? > >Thanks, > >Brian Trout >Quarryville, Pa. >
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