At 01:33 PM 4/18/97 -0400, you wrote: >Dear fellow PTG colleagues, > Please Help! > I have a customer whose Steinway studio is suffering from pinblock/backframe >separation. The Steinway however has no room >for introducing any bolts and has hardly any margin above the pin area for >clamps to grab the plate. The t pin field in this center section [between the >tenor break and the first plate screw in the treble section] is quite >congested with the top row of pins right along the top edge of the plate. > Can I just clamp [if I could find room to adequately position the clamps] >the p.b. to the back frame and hope it would hold without the use of lag >bolts? > Sincerely appreciating your help in advance, > Sol Kohen, RPT [pianotek@aol.com] > > Sol, I've had success in clamping blocks like that by just using a 2x4 right on top of the pins. Didn't drive 'em in, or anything, but may have torqued 'em. Might be tempted to go ahead and down-pitch a little, if the piano is up to pitch. Don't recommend just epoxy. Can use wedgy tool on shop-vac from under horizontal back strut to suck the glue down into the block, if the crack goes through. Good luck! Guy Guy Nichols, RPT nicho@lascruces.com "Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings."
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