This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi all, My friend and I were examining some antique furniture, figuring out how = we are going to restore it. I noticed that many drawer bottoms in = several pieces were made of thin plywood and, further, that the plywood = panels were almost universally shrunken by perhaps 1% of their original = size (e.g. 1/4" over a 25" span). Moreover, the greater shrinkage = seemed to be in width, rather than in length, with regard to the = direction of the grain of the outer veneer. The drawers weren't made = this way, as the side pieces of the drawers still fit properly, and the = bottoms have shrunken out of their channels. Either that, or the = original measurements were pretty sloppy, which I doubt. How does this happen? Perhaps repeated fluctuation in MC causes the panel to expand, compress = against the drawer sides, and then receed, whereupon dirt and debris = fills the void in the channel? With each cycle, the panel is compressed = smaller and smaller? Or perhaps repeated MC fluctuations cause the different laminates to = play off of each other, somehow causing longitudinal fiber = compression??? How??? And if I'm not imagining that this is happening, what are the = implications for laminated soundboards? Perhaps they don't crack, but = do they shrink? If so, does that not present the same problem as with a = conventional soundboard? Just curious. I don't have any laminated soundboard type pianos, but I = think it's an interesting question. Peace, Sarah ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/2c/27/fd/af/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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