Upright Side Removal

[Farrell]

I believe that the next upright I do, the sides will be sawn off. The re-assembly just has to be improved this way - and no danger of breaking a side on a real stubborn one. Thanks.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: Upright Side Removal

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: October 17, 2002 4:44 AM
> Subject: Re: Upright Side Removal
> 
> 
> > The sides of my M&H popped off reasonably easily with three small/medium
> old chisels. I don't think there was one square inch of glue joint that gave
> way. Most separation occurred between the side cores and the two inner
> facing veneer laminations. A few spots of frame broke out, and a few good
> chunks of side core broke away. The hide glue joint did not fail. So what
> difference would it make if you used white glue (Titebond)? For that matter,
> why not epoxy?
> 
> Some, perhaps even most, will come off this way. Others don't no matter how
> hard you hit and chisel. The sides will break first. Having learned this the
> hard way if they do not come off fairly easily after a few good blows with a
> lead-weighted rubber hammer I now cut them off. It's reasonably fast and
> neat and poses no problems with gluing them back on. A couple of large
> dowels top and bottom--that's what dowel centers are for--and they go back
> on clean and square.
> 
> Del
> 
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