Thumper! Where have you been? Welcome back. :) On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp at yahoo.com> wrote: > Plates were originally finished with shellac as the base ( with bronze > powder in it) which takes a long time to become brittle. Hence no chipping. > > Euphonious Thumpe > *From:* Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> > *To:* pianotech at ptg.org > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:49 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [pianotech] plate finishing > > On 5/8/2012 10:17 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > > > I've found that using an appropriate counter sink on the > > screw holes, right after the initial finishing process, helps to > eliminate > > some chipping, but ya really have to have all your ducks in a row to get > > the plate stuffed into the carcus and get the strings on before the > darned > > stuff sets up hard. Any suggestions? > > Duck straightener, definitely. > > Seriously, cleaning out the countersinks and putting a small thin washer > under nose bolt and perimeter lags or nuts helps tremendously. My biggest > hassle is what unknown acky pucky the last guy sprayed on as a finish, that > I don't know exactly how far down I have to strip it to get to something > trustworthy. At the least, it seems to be best to take perimeter and nose > bolt nut seat areas down to bare metal before priming. Murphy was an > optimist when it comes to finish work, in any case. > Ron N > > > -- John Formsma, RPT Blue Mountain, MS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120509/38408bde/attachment.htm>
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