Then it can't have moved very far out of position. Sounds like you've got an excellent chance at repairing with screw and glue. Getting the cap back exactly where it was originally is not terribly important, as long as you stabilize / solidify it. I would use epoxy, not CA, and I agree with Floyd's suggestion to un-hitch the bass strings and remove them from the bridge. good luck Mike On 12/29/2011 8:40 AM, richarducci at comcast.net wrote: > Mike, pins have not shredded cap, cap not broken off. > > Rick Ucci > Uccipiano.com > > On Dec 28, 2011, at 8:03 PM, Mike Spalding<mike.spalding1 at frontier.com> wrote: > >> Rick, >> >> Depends. If the cap still has enough integrity that the screw has something to hang onto, maybe. If the bridge pins haven't shredded the cap by not moving with the cap, maybe. Is the section of cap that moved broken off from the rest of the cap, or did the cap warp/flex in order to allow one end of it to move while the remainder did not? Depending on the amount of damage to the cap, you may have better results with epoxy than with CA. And plan on tilting the piano so you're working on the level and in the light. >> >> Mike >> >> On 12/28/2011 6:06 PM, richarducci at comcast.net wrote: >>> List, I have an Acrosonic with a shifted >>> Bridge cap , moving downward at the beginning of the bass section. >>> >>> Is it possible to loosen bass strings leaving them on hitch pins, and tap the cap back in place, ca glue it and place a screw at the end down into the root? >>> >>> >>> >>> Rick Ucci >>> Uccipiano.com
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