[pianotech] Plate Repair

Don Mannino donmannino at ca.rr.com
Tue Nov 30 22:41:39 MST 2010


Take off your hat, hold it to your chest, bow your head, close your eyes,
and say a word of thanks that the piano is now put out of its misery.

J

Really, although repairs are sometimes possible with broken plates, just
about everything is screaming to leave it be.  Old piano, low value, strut
broken through a screw hole.  It's not likely a repair in such a location
would be reliable.  But if it were, would it be worth the effort and cost?
I think not.

Don Mannino

 

Hello all. Today the plate on a 1904 Haines Bros. Upright broke. It snapped
through on the right hand strut at the top where the strut meets a bolt hole
as a horizontal break. It broke through the bolt hole. It is in the
bottom-most part of the pin field at the lower edge of the plate. There is
material on either side of the hole, enough to repair if repair is possible.
What can I do? 

Thanks, 

Dennis

 

 

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