Hi Barbara et al SNIP >Still, there was the problem for the protruding bolts (sticking up 2 inches!). I put the piano on its back and did a t-nut repair using 10-24 t-nuts-->countersunk and 1" bolts with a locking washer. The old tee-nut trick! When I was a university staff tech, I routinely used tee-nuts in Baldwin Hamilton upright bottom boards, for pelican springs and pedal mount blocks. I found the wood screws in the bottom board to be a problem often enough that I routinely replaced them with bolts and tee-nuts every time one of these pianos were in the shop. Usually, I would only replace the screw nearest the fulcrum, and leave the wood screw, which would bare none of the stress of the pedal action. Frank Emerson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070116/a38ae0fa/attachment.html
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