For the time being I've installed screws pre-drilled vertically from the bottom up and put the rails together again. They are still ugly around the broken glue joints but they are solidly functional. An unfinished set of the same length was found lying about and is being sent. I guess I get to do lacquer. I am planning to install them full thickness as they come and cut the desk down to fit the smaller opening. I will reinforce them with vertical screws as well to help prevent heavy "diva" trouble from reoccuring... Manufacturers take note: some photagrapher immortalized a diva leaning on her accompanist's music desk and now all aspiring "divas" do. Beef up those desks and their supports! Andrew Anderson On Jan 31, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Paul Williams wrote: > I have had the same problem! > > I'm considering altering the original design and getting some of those > brass rails from PianoTek. I'm tired of the constant repairs! > > Has anyone else resorted to this, or just keep on crafting new ones from > wood and expoxying them in. It's messy, and really doesn't look very > original when done. Of course, I've only done this to practice grands > where they remain for life as just that: Practice! ;>) > > On 1/31/13 5:44 PM, "Andrew Anderson" <anrebe at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I take care of an institutional B with those very thin glide rails. >> Predictably they have broken again and again. I ordered replacements >> from the mothership and they were concerned about matching citing a >> limited stock of older parts. Turns out they were right. What do you >> guys usually do with this situation as I doubt very much that those >> glides last very well anywhere else. ;-) >> >> Andrew Anderson > >
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