flat tabletop

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Paul
Sounds good to me The bolts would have plenty of surface, You might consider
cutting a slit in the end of the bolt so that it could be turned with a
screw driver.
Joe Goss
imatunr@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <tunenbww@clear.lakes.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: flat tabletop


> Joe
> I was thinking using a system similar to the balance rail in the Baldwin
> verticals: install elevator bolts in the frame, guide pins, and
countersink
> screws to give the top some adjustment.
>
> Paul Chick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe & Penny Goss <imatunr@primenet.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 8:08 AM
> Subject: Re: flat tabletop
>
>
> > Hi Paul,
> > Interesting idea.  Would you give the table a smile or a frown?
> > Or both?  Easy to do with a few bolts up from the bottom of the table
top.
> > Just the same only the reverse of the glide bolts
> > Joe Goss
> > imatunr@primenet.com
> > http://www.primenet.com/~imatunr/
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul" <tunenbww@clear.lakes.com>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:10 AM
> > Subject: Re: flat tabletop
> >
> >
> > > Terry, Larry
> > > I have one of these tops with the most beautiful 1/8" sag in it you'd
> ever
> > > care to see. It's on a rolling lab table that is poorly braced. But it
> > > appears flexible enough to straighten. Sometimes its curve is almost a
> > > perfect match for a piano keybed. The idea has occurred to me to make
> this
> > > top curve adjustable. And oh the graffiti!!!  My My!!!
> > >
> > > Paul Chick
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 5:36 PM
> > > Subject: Re: flat tabletop
> > >
> > >
> > > > Having been a scientist in another life, I had though of the old
chem
> > lab
> > > > tables. Good idea. Sound like you/I/we need to go by the University
> dump
> > > > next time they remodel the labs! All those nice hardwood drawers and
> > > > cabinets. WOW, sure would be nice in the shop!
> > > >
> > > > Terry Farrell
> > > > Piano Tuning & Service
> > > > Tampa, Florida
> > > > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: <toto@fovea.pndr.upenn.edu>
> > > > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > > > Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 4:42 PM
> > > > Subject: flat tabletop
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Another suggestion for a flat workbench:
> > > > >
> > > > > I use a discarded soapstone tabletop that was removed from
> > > > > a chemistry laboratory at the University of PA.  These things show
> > > > > up in the hallways periodically on there way out to the dumpster.
> > > > > If you saw all of the useful stuff I see getting wasted, it might
> > > > > make you cry.
> > > > >
> > > > > Larry Toto
> > > > >
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