Gee Mike - The piano's 18 years old, as must be the bracket. Put a new one on and it probably will break, in about 16 years. David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson, NY At 03:56 PM 5/26/2010, you wrote: >Hi All, > >I'm looking for suggestions for what should be a simple problem. >I have a Kawai KG-2 in a high school with the "slow fall" fallboard >that isn't so slow any more it's about 18 years old. >The problem is the fallboard keeps getting displaced, on the treble >side the original shipping screw is still present keeping that end >in place but on the bass/slow fall end the plastic bracket has been >broken enough that there's no place to put in a screw to keep it in place. >I don't know if they move it a lot with the fall open or it's just >kids messing around or what it is but keeping the fallboard in place >has become a problem for the director & therefore my problem. >My feeling is that replacing the original bracket with a new one >would be short lived since the old one(&probably the new one)are >plastic and would end up broken again. > >Thanks, > >Mike > > >-- > >It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought >without accepting it. > > Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC) > >Michael Magness >Magness Piano Service >608-786-4404 ><http://www.IFixPianos.com>www.IFixPianos.com >email <mailto:mike at ifixpianos.com>mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100526/22f56f95/attachment.htm>
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