flat tabletop

[Paul]

Joe
I was thinking using a system similar to the balance rail in the Baldwin
verticals: install elevator bolts in the frame, guide pins, and countersink
screws to give the top some adjustment.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe & Penny Goss <imatunr@primenet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: flat tabletop


> Hi Paul,
> Interesting idea.  Would you give the table a smile or a frown?
> Or both?  Easy to do with a few bolts up from the bottom of the table top.
> Just the same only the reverse of the glide bolts
> Joe Goss
> imatunr@primenet.com
> http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul" <tunenbww@clear.lakes.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: flat tabletop
>
>
> > Terry, Larry
> > I have one of these tops with the most beautiful 1/8" sag in it you'd
ever
> > care to see. It's on a rolling lab table that is poorly braced. But it
> > appears flexible enough to straighten. Sometimes its curve is almost a
> > perfect match for a piano keybed. The idea has occurred to me to make
this
> > top curve adjustable. And oh the graffiti!!!  My My!!!
> >
> > Paul Chick
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 5:36 PM
> > Subject: Re: flat tabletop
> >
> >
> > > Having been a scientist in another life, I had though of the old chem
> lab
> > > tables. Good idea. Sound like you/I/we need to go by the University
dump
> > > next time they remodel the labs! All those nice hardwood drawers and
> > > cabinets. WOW, sure would be nice in the shop!
> > >
> > > Terry Farrell
> > > Piano Tuning & Service
> > > Tampa, Florida
> > > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <toto@fovea.pndr.upenn.edu>
> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:42 PM
> > > Subject: flat tabletop
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Another suggestion for a flat workbench:
> > > >
> > > > I use a discarded soapstone tabletop that was removed from
> > > > a chemistry laboratory at the University of PA.  These things show
> > > > up in the hallways periodically on there way out to the dumpster.
> > > > If you saw all of the useful stuff I see getting wasted, it might
> > > > make you cry.
> > > >
> > > > Larry Toto
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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