back problems

[gordon stelter]

I'd go fatter than 5/16' bolts. Doubt you could torqe
them enough. also: let the tension off the strings
some.
    Thump


--- Susan Kline <skline@peak.org> wrote:

> 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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