action brackets

[Frank/Anne/Emily Cahill]

Keven,

I took my Everett bracket to a welder today. He said it'a aluminum and can't be
repaired. It's a castng and he called it pot metal.

A freind of mine, Sam Powell RPT, says he has fixed these things with JB weld.
He reinforces the bracket with brass stock. He suggested I wait until everything
dries and then drill for bolts, although he didn't use bolts.

So I guess this is my next step.

Frank Cahill
Assoc. Member
Northern VA



"Kevin E. Ramsey" wrote:

>     Regarding this posting and the one from Phil Romano; I too came upon a
> broken action bracket, but on a Yamaha U1. Since it was the one on the end,
> I was able to make a repair without even removing the bracket from the
> rails. What I did was to go to the hardware store and get a couple of pieces
> of spacer metal ( 3/4" by 2", with two holes each, probably used for
> screwing two pieces of wood together, I don't know what you'd call them,
> obviously). I also bought a tungsten carbide drill bit and two bolts, and a
> few washers.
>     I repositioned the bracket pieces and marked them with a felt tip pen.
> Then I drilled them for the bolts. I then mixed up some JB weld, applying it
> to both parts, and clamped the whole thing together tightly. I then laid the
> action down on a flat bench to get the angle exactly the same as the other
> brackets, and let it set overnight. Put it back in the piano, and everything
> worked just great, no regulation needed, just what I was going to do to it
> anyway, before I started on this job.
>     I was doing this for one of the salesmen whom I work with who had just
> bought this piano, used, so I was reshaping hammers, voicing, and regulating
> it anyway. But I didn't notice the break in the action bracket until I put
> it in the cradle. I'll be looking for this sort of thing in the future,
> though.
>
> Kevin E. Ramsey
> ramsey@extremezone.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank/Anne/Emily Cahill" <fcahill@erols.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:56 AM
> Subject: action brackets
>
> > I am working on an Everett console.
> >
> > I have a broken action bracket...clean break.
> >
> > Can this be repaired?
> >
> > Does anyone have an old bracket for sale? (The bracket is 8 3/8" tall.)
> >
> > Frank Cahill Associate Member
> > Northern VA