Upright pinblock removal

[John Ross]

Hi Terry,
Andre wanted to supply a pinblock, which would just drop in, with
none, or just minor alignment. This would be for someone not sure of
their own skills, or someone wanting a quick turn around.
He was also trying to sell more of his pinblocks.
The pinblock he would supply, would have every screw hole and
tuning-pin hole, already in place. All this, as you say with the same
misplaced tuning holes etc,. as per the original.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: Upright pinblock removal


| If you have an upright piano with a full plate, why would you want
to use the old block as a template for anything? I commonly find
plate/pinblock screws and tuning pin holes that are not well centered,
etc. Is it not a good opportunity to do a better job than the original
effort by "out with the old and in with the new"?
|
| Terry Farrell
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "David Renaud" <drjazzca@yahoo.ca>
| To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
| Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 7:56 AM
| Subject: Upright pinblock removal
|
|
| > I have watched Bolduc replace a upright pinblock at a
| > weekend seminar class.
| > and since removed one block using his method.
| >
| > After a couple hours drilling holes and a single cut
| > with a circular saw set to the correct depth mine
| > popped of very easily.
| >
| > I could have saved an hour by not drilling all those
| > holes and just cutting 15-20 strips across the
| > pinblock with the circular saw(take 5min)set 1 mm
| > above the depth of the block, and just popped of the
| > strips
| > with a chisel.
| >
| > Then a damp cloth is placed on the 1mm remaining
| > layer.
| > Apply a hot iron and let it do the work. It peals off.
| >
| > the remaining pinblock without having to touch/ damage
| > the joint surface.
| >
| > The sides did come off. The only reason I see to take
| > time drilling all the holes is to preserve the old
| > block so he can make a duplicate.
| > Just accurately measure depth before cutting, as that
| > is loss. Since my project had a perfectly rectangular
| > block, that was not really necessary to preserve the
| > old block, could have cut it off.
| >
| > As for integrity of frame, once the frame is bare,
| > reinforce all joints, soak with glue, drill into
| > joints and add maple dowel plugs linking fame
| > components securely.
| >
| >                                              Cheers
| >                                              Dave
| > Renaud
| >                                              RPT
| >                                              Canada
| >
| >
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