If you spot solder the rails as in the buckpiano web posting, can you then fill the gaps with epoxy? Al - High Point, NC On Mar 26, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Kent Swafford wrote: > Custom jigs can set the heights as well as the spread. See attached. > > > <IMAG0093.jpeg> > > > On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > >> Hi Dan >> Thanks for sharing the nifty set up. I was trying to think thru your procedure. Would it be something like? >> 1. Check & record the action spread spread,elevation, lateral location and tilt of each rail? >> 2. Set up the turnbuckles on the old rails before removal? >> 3. remove one rail and set up the turn buckles , check tilt elevation, lateral alignment and solder? >> 4. Next rail, same procedure? >> >> Dale S. Erwin >> www.Erwinspiano.com >> Custom restoration >> Ronsen Piano hammers >> Join the Weickert felt Revolution >> 209-577-8397 >> 209-985-0990 >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: bergpiano <dan at bergpiano.com> >> To: pianotech at ptg.org >> Sent: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 5:36 am >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails >> >> Hey guys check it out. http://www.ejbuckpiano.com/Charlie/KeyBoard/Action.html >> >> Dan Berg >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> >> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> >> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:31 AM >> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails >> >> >I didn't realize that the brass was toast. You're sort of stuck then. For >> > $600 you can learn a lot about soldering. >> > >> > David Love >> > www.davidlovepianos.com >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf >> > Of Ron Nossaman >> > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:24 PM >> > To: pianotech at ptg.org >> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails >> > >> > On 3/25/2011 10:51 PM, Ed Foote wrote: >> >> David asks: >> >>> >BTW are you sure you can't salvage them with some wood rot doctor type >> >> stuff. >> >> >> >> The brass is split all to hell. I have had John Dewey do some before, as >> >> well as Chris Robinson. However, at over $600 for installing two rails >> >> that cost about $70 each, plus the delay in shipping and waiting, I >> >> gotta find a better way. I can handle most of the foreseeable problems, >> >> but have never soldered anything that heavy. >> > >> > Considering the profit potential, I can't imagine why not. >> > Ron N >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110326/cb495dc6/attachment.htm>
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