This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment If they are carriage bolts, they do not extend through the rim to the = underside of the keybed. It seems that the plate and block may have = been assembled outside the piano with the carriage bolts fastening to = the underside of the block where the block sits on the inner rim. Then = the block/plate was dropped into the piano and the block glued to the = inner rim. Es posible? If so, this would make removing the plate more = difficult, no? Any ideas? David Love ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Bill Ballard=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: July 20, 2001 5:15 AM Subject: Re: Plate removal ??? 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 +++++++++++++++++++++=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/22/a3/91/3c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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