loose lyre posts

[Roger Jolly]

Hi Patrick,
                   It looks like you have a layer of veneer covering the 
dowel holes, from what I can see blowing the photo up.
Steam off the layer of veneer if that is the case.  No big deal if you 
can't find matching veneer. it's in a place where it won't be noticed.
Just a thought

Regards Roger




At 09:48 AM 6/23/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>List,
>I'm doing a bit of damper regulation and lyre repair on an old Fischer 
>grand. While the glue joints between the lyre posts to the pedal box 
>were  already pretty loose, and readily disassembled with a few wacks to 
>the interior of the pedal box, the glue joints of the posts at the top are 
>only slightly loose (one is almost rock solid). As you can see the posts' 
>dowels don't go all the way through to the lyre top block. If they did I 
>could just support the top block, pound on the dowels, and drive them out.
>Putting the posts in a vice and wacking on the block with a rubber hammer 
>hasn't done much either.
>Is there any likelihood that, since the dowels couldn't be wedged & glued 
>as they were in the pedal box, the post dowels are secured by horizontal 
>dowels underneath some veneer? How can they be this tight without a wedge 
>or dowel?
>I know some of you do this often -- helpful hints for quick disassembly?
>Patrick Draine
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