rim separations & beam cracks

[J Patrick Draine]

 This morning I went out to tune a Steinway A, recently purchased
several months ago at a major S&S dealership's "major concert venue
special sales event". While originally manufactured in 1908, It had
recently been fully rebuilt (new soundboard etc.). Anyway, I found a
few hairline cracks in the lid as I was tuning it, and then as I was
under the piano, starting to install a Dampp-Chaser system, I noticed
a crack in one of the beams, and gaps/cracks in the rim. As I was just
about to put some screws to secure the fill tube in the immediate
vicinity of said cracks I decided to retreat from the installation,
and inform the prevously blissful customer of my findings.
I really don't know what level of implied or spelled out warranty the
customer may have in this situation. It's certainly possible that
these gaps & cracks will be/are stable, but I prefer to be cautious
rather than blindly optimistic. The customer isn't a panicky type;
she's on good terms with the sales person & I helped her compose an
e-mail to the sales person informing the dealer of the situation.
It seems to me an EZ but entirely stable repair would be for the
dealer to take it back to the shop, flip the piano over, and fill the
rim & beam cracks with low viscosity epoxy. I suppose a low viscosity
glue can fix the cracks in the lid, too, followed by a couple more
coats of ebony lacquer.
Question to the rebuilder/remanufacturers/dealers out there: wouldn't
you address these issues even if you're selling it as a used (at said
concert & teaching complex) rebuilt piano?
Put another way, am I being too "sensitive" in expecting some effort
in filling the gaps in the rim in a structurally sound manner?
Patrick Draine