[pianotech] Plate welding question

[Dale Erwin]

Plate welding is dubious at best(talk to the Loch -n -stitch guys) and in the piano.... very risky bizness in my opinion.



Dale Erwin R.P.T.
Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.
 Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos
www.Erwinspiano.com
Phone: 209-577-8397

 
  





-----Original Message-----
From: paul bruesch <paul at bruesch.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sat, Dec 8, 2012 10:04 am
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Plate welding question


The product/procedure frequently recommended here for repair of plate cracks would be Lock-n-Stitch.
http://www.locknstitch.com/


Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN


On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp at yahoo.com> wrote:



A friend just picked up (free) a great Bush and Lane art-case grand, but with vertical cracks along both sides of the 2 tubular bulges in the 2 struts in the treble area, near the pin web, where 2 nose-bolts pass through. (Created, I suspect, when a 2-thin pinblock was installed, and the plate screwed into the case without lowering the nosebolts first, to get their shoulders temporarily out of the way.) He wants to weld them (with the plate still in the piano, maybe) and as I have no experience with such, am humbly appealing for information.


Thanks!
Thumpe





 
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