[pianotech] Fixing stripped screws

[Tom Driscoll]

Re: [pianotech] Fixing stripped screwsList,.
I'm on board with Jons suggestion. 
Who hasn't removed a screw thats been repaired with toothpicks or whatever and had a pile of splinters and saw dust come out. The late Journal editor Don Galt suggested in the journal the leather-tightbond method about 30 years ago and it has worked for me. I will try the paper towel -CA suggestion at my next opportunity.
Tom -ready to try new things-Driscoll
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jon Page 
  portunityTo: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 9:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fixing stripped screws


    I always have Titebond and shoepegs/broken shanks with me.

  I always have Bolduc wood glue and leather/suede with me.
  It is a superior repair to wooden dowels or any variety of
  end grain.


  Dowels, shanks, shoe pegs, toothpicks and such will break into
  tiny pieces when the threads of the screw cut into them and you
  will end up with a compromised anchoring. There is no strength
  to the material with that grain orientation, even without mincing.


  Leather or suede will compress and form new threads as the
  glue solidifies. Of course the best repair would be to install a plug
  cut with the proper grain orientation and to redrill a pilot hole.


  Don't waste your time and muck up the hole with long, end grain material.

  Regards,

  Jon Page
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