Bryn,
After a BRIEF look at the photos of the cracked plate, in the grand scheme of things I'd say this one looks pretty safe. You might want to run two large screws through the plate and into the pinblock for insurance, one above the action support post to the left and one below to the right.
David G. Hughes, RPT
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From: Bryn Latta
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 9:54 PM
Subject: [pianotech] Cracked plate
I'm pretty new to this, so please forgive my naivete:
I looked at an upright piano for a customer. It had a crack in the plate from the bottom treble corner of the open-faced pin block. I thought that this area might not be that structurally significant, since the frame of the piano is pretty massive and the crack isn't between the string attachment points. But then, something must have made it crack, the plate screw just above in the photo, maybe. Otherwise the piano seems pretty nice for its age. Is it junk? Any thoughts?
Bryn Latta
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