[pianotech] Grand Spinet

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/13/2011 11:46 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:
> Ron said: "P.S. I posted here for two reasons;
> (1) More readers.
> (2) Attached photos via email.
>
> Ron,
> I'm glad you did!<G>  Especially the pics! Is a puzzlement regarding the
> Robertson Screws. Perhaps the Grand Piano Company, got a good deal on a
> "close out sale" in Canadaland.<G>  Remembering how stand offish that
> company was, (when they were in business), And, their cavalier attitude
> when contacted for assistance....Nothing would suprise me about them and
> the way they "constructed" their pianos.

Those are pianos? Gee, I didn't know...


> P.S.
> I hope you used Epoxy for the bolt up, since they used some really weird
> glue back then. My experience is, it maintained the consistency of
> petrified snot. And nothing I tried, short of epoxy, would co-mingle with
> it.

Nope, Titebond. If Titebond won't stick to it, epoxy won't either, and 
the added hardware is doing the work anyway rather then the glue.
Ron N