Oh wow. Good point Ed. I read "bottom of leg is loose" so I just made the assumption we had an upright of some sort here. Geeezzz - your explanation of grand leg repair makes perfect sense to me now. Sorry 'bout that Chief! All right Paul - we are likely talking grand piano here. The light bulb just went off in my head. I had been picturing an upright all along - a leg that is secured at the top and the bottom. But now I understand it is a grand with the standard two-piece leg. Oh gosh. Sure. Yup. Everyone is correct and I am WAY out in left field. I think I'll just tuck my tail between my legs, take some more cold medicine and go back to bed. Geeeeeesh! Phil - I've done this repair before. If I can help you, I'd be happy to. It's going to be like Ed first described. I've done it both ways where the parts were in good condition and I glued it back together and I done it where everything was chewed up and I epoxied it back together. Boy-oh-boy - that's what I get for trying to think....... Terry Farrell On Sep 15, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Ed Foote wrote: > Greetings, > I wrote about the leg repair inre a grand piano leg, if it was an > upright, things are different. The following is for grands: >>> The Steinway legs are assembled with a large, (approx. 1 1/4 >>> inch) dowel between the leg and the plinth,(top part). > Terry asks: > > What do you mean by the "top part". A plinth is a base of a cabinet. > Are you talking about the top of the leg - Phil's leg is loose at > the bottom. > > I had always been told that the upper part of the leg was a plinth, > but that is a classical architecture term. I meant the part that > comes in contact with the bottom of the piano case > > " The most effective repair is to drill out the wedge with a > series of small, (1/8") holes, and then hammer the dowel and leg out > of the socket. > > >> I'm presuming the leg is secured into the bottom of the keybed > at the top and into the "foot" of the cabinet at the bottom of the > leg. (Is there a better term for the horizontal forward extension on > the base of a piano into which the base of a front leg is secured - > like on most old uprights?) You say to hammer the leg out of the > socket - are you saying to remove the leg at the top also? > >>> MAKE SURE YOU ARE GLUING BACK IN THE SAME DIRECTION! >>> >>> >>Gluing what back in what same direction? > Don't reverse the top part, put it back in the original > configuration. > >>> If cut properly, the wedge will be below surface so the plate will >>> fit as originally intended and the plates will mesh properly. > > >>Below the surface of what? The dowel - correct? "So the plate..." > what plate? What plates meshing? The piano plate? The plate for the > caster? Meshing? Totally lost here. > Below the surface of the mounting plate. > > If this was a Steinway upright, everything is different. The > uprights have a mortise in the bottom of the leg that slide fits > over a triangular wedge attached to the bottom extension. The top is > usually just screwed to the underside of the keybed with two metal > brackets. >> >> Ed Foote RPT >> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >> >> > > = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090915/b73c27d6/attachment.htm>
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