Everett Pianos

[Bill Ballard]

At 11:23 PM -0800 10/31/02, Susan Kline wrote:
>At 07:02 PM 10/31/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>>I regulary replace these with the correct bolt on a second visit so that one
>>can use any wrench to remove the lid.
>
>Yes, but the Allen bolt sure keeps the school kids out of the pianos!

Button-head cap screws. Twenty years ago, I was so enthusiastic about 
Everett's "security system" that I tried retro-fitting that design on 
two Baldwin 243 and a Wurlitzer console in the practise rooms of one 
high school. (It really only works if the lid has no molding around 
its edge which would prevent it from sliding directly horizontally 
off the top, as the Everett tops do.)

I also thought that the Allen sockets were not enough of a challenge 
to vandals who had spent anytime in the HS's automotive shop, so I 
turned up some #14 x 1.5" Tamper-Proof Torx FH wood screws (TT27 
bit). (The Security Torx socket has a 6-point star (points rounded 
off) with a pin in the middle. You'll see them on old pay phones.) 
This is what I ended up tieing down the lids and bottom boards of the 
consoles with. Of course there was the constant nagging worry that 
the vandals who knew what an Allen socket was but didn't recognize 
the Tamper-Proof Torx would simply pour Elmers glue into the socket. 
That never happened, although I did fill the sockets with Vaseline to 
foil this.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"Blessed are the cynical,
		for they hath made backups."
     ...........anon
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