<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Why not repair the holes with shoe pegs or other similar strip of wood? Sometimes I don't want to go look for a shoe peg, so I slice off some wood from a hammer shank. Works fine with a bit of glue.<br> <br> JF<br> <br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com">PIANOTECHNICIAN@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="midcd6.7bf16f0.32ef4d36@aol.com" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name="GENERATOR"> <font id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>I have a customer with a 1920's Steinway A, and the lock bar screws are loose - I need to put in slightly larger screws because the holes are a bit enlarged. I wrote down the dimensions of the existing screws the last time I tuned the piano, but lost the information -- I think they're somewhere around 2 1/2 inches long. Does anyone know how long the screws are and their diameter?</div> <div> </div> <div>Jesse Gitnik</div> <div>NYC</div> </font></blockquote> </body> </html>