[pianotech] Riding the rails

[David Love]

BTW are you sure you can't salvage them with some wood rot doctor type
stuff.  I just did that on an old rail and it worked out well.  Had to build
up a couple of enlarged holes with some wood flour/epoxy mix but they seemed
to hold and the epoxy infusion seemed to solidify things.  It's not much of
an effort to try it, if it doesn't work you can go to the next step.  Just
let the stuff soak in with repeated applications and when it seems like it's
taken all it can turn the rail upside down so that you don't have a pool of
epoxy in the hole itself.  Let it drip onto something for awhile and then
wipe away the excess with some lacquer thinner.  You can only do one rail at
a time that way but it's just two days.   

 

David Love

www.davidlovepianos.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ed Foote
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 4:47 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Riding the rails

 

Greetings,  

   Well, it has finally happened.  I have to replace two action rails in an
85 note Steinway A.  There are action rails listed in the parts list, but
they are for the 88 note models.  I assumed I would chop off the treble
section and have only a half hole left at the top.  Holly has asked if I
want them unbored, mentioning that some techs say they are the same, while
others of us say they are not.  

   Would someone with experience in this give me some idea of which way to
go?  I got me a drill press, but the work involved in indexing and drilling
is something I would just as soon avoid if possible.  However, I don't want
to be fighting an alignment nightmare with ill fitting holes. 

thanks, 

Ed Foote RPT
http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.htmll

  

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