---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment At 7:37 AM -0400 7/20/01, Steve Grattan wrote: Hi, I just had a J&C Fischer Ampico grand with the same arrangement and the "rivets" were actually carraige bolts and there were nuts and lockwashers buried in the pinblock. Try looking with a mirror. Good luck !! ----- Original Message ----- From: <mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>David Love To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2094 2:01 AM In the front corners of the plate, however, there are two rivet like heads where you would normally find a couple of large and long screws. Smooth. No slot. The plate doesn't budge at that end. What gives, or doesn't? Anybody? Or it could be 19th century style Chickering square grand construction where what you're looking at are the heads of long carriage bolts which go all the way through the rim and whose nuts are actually buried just below the surface on the underside of the keybed. Look for sings of inlays there. Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "Filing the bridgepins sure puts a sparkle on the restringing, but is best done before the plate is re-installed" ...........recent shop journal entry +++++++++++++++++++++ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1185 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/17/72/41/a9/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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