Hello Jon, No evidence that the old block was ever removed. I had to break it loose from the frame. It was tightly glued in place plus four big screws. I knew from turning and lifting the nosebolt that there was zero threads hold it. I installed the new block yesterday. Piano tension is down and I set the nosebolt about .005 thousands below the plate and then tightened the capscrew down. Is that correct? Rich Jon Page wrote: > > At 09:54 PM 03/25/2000 -0600, you wrote: > >Nose bolt block was not split. I found it because after the break I > >checked. Too late. Turned by hand, holding nothing. It now has a new > >hard maple block epoxied in place. > > New block. eh. > > So the bolt was removed at some point either in a rebuild or while it was > strung. > If it was strung, no tension dropped; that could stress the strut. Was the > bolt > reinstalled to the correct height? > > Jon Page, piano technician > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. > mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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