<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Hi Barbara et al</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>SNIP</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2>>Still, there was the problem for the protruding bolts (sticking up 2 inches!).  I put the piano on its back and did a t-nut repair using 10-24 t-nuts-->countersunk and 1" bolts with a locking washer.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>The old tee-nut trick!  When I was a university staff tech, I routinely used tee-nuts in Baldwin Hamilton upright bottom boards, for pelican springs and pedal mount blocks.  I found the wood screws in the bottom board to be a problem often enough that I routinely replaced them with bolts and tee-nuts every time one of these pianos were in the shop.  Usually, I would only replace the screw nearest the fulcrum, and leave the wood screw, which would bare none of the stress of the pedal action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Frank Emerson</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>