back problems

[Susan Kline]

Hi, Greg

I'm guessing here -- I leave this kind of major surgery to other folks -- 
but I wonder if it could be hung up on fragments of your hide glue which 
cracked off when the joint failed? Maybe if you inserted some steam or very 
hot water, and then tried to pull it tight?

Failing that, if you have real confidence in the security of your bolts, 
perhaps you could lay  a bead of slow-set epoxy along the crack, and then 
thin it down with a heat gun until it got sucked into the seam, repeating 
until it is filled. It doesn't look like a gaping chasm, thank heavens.

Susan

At 10:49 PM 6/20/2005 -0400, you wrote:
>Greetings list members,
>         I can't believe we're just back from the National convention and 
> already I'm faced with a weird problem. I'm attempting to re-glue the 
> back to pin block glue joint on an old S&S console. I slathered the glue 
> in (hot hide) and left it in about a week prior to leaving for the 
> convention. The day before I left I took off the clamps and tried to 
> raise the tension back up. (Yes, I let it down first).  When I was 
> reapplying tension from the treble down I got to the low tenor and all 
> seemed fine. As I progressed into the bass region I started hearing funny 
> sounds and then it let go right where I had glued it. Before catching my 
> airplane I ordered 6" flat head 5/16" machine screws from McMaster - Carr 
> in order to drill and bolt all the way through and put washers and nuts 
> out the back side. I just finished doing that and can't seem to close the 
> gap all the way. The pictures in the attachment are what it looks like 
> now. Any thoughts? Would it be completely wrong to drill a new hole in 
> the raised trim of the plate? Just one would draw it together I'd bet but 
> it seems a little dicey to drill there.
>
>Thanks,
>Greg
>
>
>Greg Newell
>Greg's piano Forté
>mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
>
>
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