[pianotech] Fixing stripped screws

Ryan Sowers tunerryan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 22:18:48 PDT 2009


Very eloquently put, Ron!

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

>
> Well, you could use your $750 carbon fiber and titanium cybertronic
> guillotine to cut faux toothpicks out of leather to a tolerance of 0.00005",
> and insert them with the aid of a $1400 binocular microscope, or you could
> whack out something roughly eyeball appropriate with scissors, slather it
> with Titebond, and poke it in the hole with your long thin tweezers,
> followed by the screw. Troglodytes like myself use plan B. It's not high
> tech, but it gets me there nicely. You're just partially filling the hole
> with something screw friendly, with whatever glue is necessary to anchor and
> reinforce the whole mess.
> Ron N
>
>


-- 
Ryan Sowers, RPT
Puget Sound Chapter
Olympia, WA
www.pianova.net
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