Rebuilding an upright

[Fenton Murray]

Del,
I forgot about the plate being such a good locater in an upright. The thought of getting the board out with out taking the sides off never crossed my mind. I gotta do things hard, complicated and expensive. I'm getting tired of that.
Fenton
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Delwin D Fandrich 
  To: 'Pianotech List' 
  Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 11:26 AM
  Subject: RE: Rebuilding an upright


  1)  Not always. Most of the upright soundboards I have replaced have come out and gone in with the sides in place. Check before you saw and don't make things more difficult than they need to be.

  2)  If you leave the original pinblock in place while the board is being fitted and the bridges are being positioned you can align the plate using the original plate screws. A few measurements help. You then align the bridges to the plate. As usual.

  ddf



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    From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fenton Murray
    Sent: April 21, 2008 10:58 AM
    To: Pianotech List
    Subject: Re: Rebuilding an upright


     1) .... The sides need to come off to install the SB. Michael Campi showed me a method of sawing a kerf on the back side up the glue line with a skill saw, makes knocking the side off much easier, a shim is made to reassemble. Look real close for screws coming into the side through the end beam.  

    2) .... Also, bridge locating is a little trickier because there is no rim to reference to, I use the block area  up high and build up a removable fixture at the bottom of the piano for reference. 
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