Steinway Rail Dowels

Wimblees@AOL.COM Wimblees@AOL.COM
Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:35:55 EDT


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In a message dated 8/26/01 10:32:34 AM Central Daylight Time, 
RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes:


> John Dewey is set up to replace dowels with the rails in place. He cooks the
> old dowel dry with a resistance hearing cord (used to thaw frozen water 
> pipes
> in the "real" world). The desiccated and shrunken dowel is then driven out 
> and
> a pre-desiccated replacement is driven back in. As the replacement absorbs
> humidity, it clamps itself in the tube. Then you drill the holes and
> reassemble. You can do it yourself, or send the stack to John and let him 
> worry
> about it. 
> 
> Ron N
> 

Thanks for the advice, Ron. Who is John Dewy, and how can I get a hold of him?

Wim 

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