plate plugging

[Carl Meyer]

Fill the hole with bondo  and refinish.  You will spray the plate won't you?  For cosmetic reasons, of course.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <kam544@flash.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: plate plugging


> Roger, List,
> 
> Not that I have any experience to answer his question, but I think Dave was
> asking how to plug the existing holes in the plate rather than the pin
> block itself.
> 
> Looking forward to when the answer does come.
> 
> Keith McGavern
> Registered Piano Technician
> Oklahoma Chapter 731
> Piano Technicians Guild
> USA
> 
> >...Get a good plug cutter, and plug with
> >some spare pin block material...
> >regards Roger
> 
> >...Well, drilling new holes in the
> >>plate before regilding would not be that big a problem, BUT...   How, or
> >>with what do I plug the original holes?  I would prefer the original holes
> >>to really  "disappear" for cosmetic reasons....
> >>Dave Foster
> 
>