Only way to go. I've not done it myself as they are just down the road from me in Turlock. They have saved my Bacon Three times. The Picture is a Steinway O at the cross joint there was a piano mover induced break. In my mind this a plate strut are thee worst places this could happen There are 5 pins in that spot and they are holding beautifully 8 years later. It saved the piano and the insurance copmany about 25 K at the time. It was a family piano as well. Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: SooperTooner at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, Jan 8, 2011 8:24 am Subject: [pianotech] Plate crack repair I have 2 candidates for repair of cracked plates: a square with a crack in the tuning pin area and a small grand with a crack in a treble strut. Neither are valuable to anyone but the owners and both are owned by schools. I don't wish to send them off for welding so have been looking at the Lock-n-Stitch products with the intent of doing the repairs in my own shop. I've watched their YouTube videos of the process and I see no reason why I can't do the same myself. Any caveats or constructive opinions? Donn Young, RPT 610-964-8181 Devon, Pennsylvania On the web at www.FixPianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110108/dad99fcf/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 440455 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110108/dad99fcf/attachment-0001.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 156.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 440455 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110108/dad99fcf/attachment-0001.jpg>
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