back problems

[Susan Kline]

Hi, Warren

Glad to see you back again.

With the caveat that I don't do work like this, I think in your place I'd 
reduce the thing to its basic parts and then build it back up again. And 
I'd see if I couldn't work out a different system for the lid, so that the 
screws could be somewhere else.

Any chance it has something like powder post beetle in there?

Susan

P.S. You probably are borrowing trouble, but that's better than buying. At 
least it belongs to somebody else and you're just giving it a temporary 
home ... or, as Richard Davenport was once quoted as saying, "I'm glad it's 
not my piano."

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At 04:13 PM 6/21/2005 -0500, you wrote:

>Susan,
>We've got an old studio that someone "repaired" before (considerably
>before). It had the interesting situation where the screw holes holding
>the lid down were dead center into the glue joint between the back board
>and the pin block where it came apart. They obviously tried to pull the
>two together by tightening the big bolts instead of putting some serious
>clamps on there. The result is a 1/8-3/16 inch gap between the boards that
>I'll bet I can't close with clamps now. What'cha think? My first impulse
>is to take a wrecking tool and pry that sucker apart and start over. Am I
>borrowing trouble? It is also separated from the case sides so that
>shouldn't be a problem. I'm on another job right now so it is not
>something I have to decide right now. Whatever I do, I am going to put big
>plugs in those lid hold down screw holes to prevent the problem happening
>again on my turf!
>Warren
>
>Warren Fisher- Navy Retired - Slidell, Louisiana
>
>
>Warren Fisher- Navy Retired - Slidell, Louisiana
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