It needs to go to the shop. Pad pedal parts with wood spacers, use a scissors jack to separate the box from the tenons. You will probably have to saw out the wedges. Clean everything up, assembly dry with new wedges give it a try...it will tighten up beautifully. Then glue it up...do both tenons. Yellow wood glue or hot hide... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 Original message From: "Todd Loomis" To: Caut Received: 3/2/2009 10:02:47 AM Subject: [CAUT] loose schimmel lyre One of my customers needs a repair done on his Schimmel CC. The left hand lyre post tenon is loose in its mortise, but the right hand one is still good, at least superficially. Has anyone successfully done a repair that doesn't involve somehow removing the pedal box entirely, cutting out the old wedges, and driving new ones with fresh glue on the joint? If I could fix just the bad joint without disturbing the good one, that would be great, but I don't see how to either cut out the wedge or spread glue this way. If it is necessary to totally remove the pedal box, do you have any suggestions for doing this without too much banging, which I'm afraid might also loosen the joints at the top! Thanks, Todd Loomis See all the ways you can stay connected to friends and family -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090302/8f84683d/attachment.html>
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