Boy, this one sounds like a dandy! Gotta admit, most that I see have the dowels going all the way to the top of the block. One possible route would be to do an exploratory hole from the top - no real danger of wrecking anything because you can always dowel/epoxy/whatever it and it won't show - you should be able to target the likely location of an original dowel pretty good. If you drill down with a one-inch bit or so, you may just find the original dowel down below - then you can center a proper hole and drill or push out the original. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@attbi.com> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:48 AM Subject: loose lyre posts > List, > I'm doing a bit of damper regulation and lyre repair on an old Fischer > grand. While the glue joints between the lyre posts to the pedal box > were already pretty loose, and readily disassembled with a few wacks > to the interior of the pedal box, the glue joints of the posts at the > top are only slightly loose (one is almost rock solid). As you can see > the posts' dowels don't go all the way through to the lyre top block. > If they did I could just support the top block, pound on the dowels, > and drive them out. > Putting the posts in a vice and wacking on the block with a rubber > hammer hasn't done much either. > Is there any likelihood that, since the dowels couldn't be wedged & > glued as they were in the pedal box, the post dowels are secured by > horizontal dowels underneath some veneer? How can they be this tight > without a wedge or dowel? > I know some of you do this often -- helpful hints for quick disassembly? > Patrick Draine > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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