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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Golly gee-whizz John Ross, I only said "bass
bridge" three times in the first four sentences! So no, not the long bridge, but
rather the bass bridge.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I agree that a new bridge would be better, but I
was able to complete a very solid repair that compliments this 1950s Acrosonic
spinet perfectly for only $200. You gonna pop a new bridge on that piano
for 200 clams?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">John
Ross</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 13, 2007 5:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bass Bridge Epoxy
Repair</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>When we are talking bridge repair, I assume that
we are talking the main bridge, and not the bass bridge?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>I have always removed the bass bridge, and
remanufactured.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A
href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jonpage@comcast.net href="mailto:jonpage@comcast.net">Jon Page</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 13, 2007 10:45
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Bass Bridge Epoxy Repair</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=-4> We had a recent thread on
repairing cracked bass bridges with epoxy. The question was raised on how
much time a repair might take. I just completed a repair today on an old
Acrosonic bass bridge.<BR><BR> About five notes were affected - the
treble-most notes on the bass bridge. Upon starting to tune the piano (she
tunes every six years whether the piano needs it or not), I noticed the
upper bass was way flat. Checked it with my Verituner and saw that the top
five notes were about 30 cents flat. Looked at the bridge and saw that the
speaking side bridge pins on those notes were standing up straight and a
crack ran right through all the speaking pins on the top five notes. You
could see that the strings had straightened out and that the cap had moved a
bit.<BR><BR> I removed the affected strings and the cap came right off
and the pins were easy to remove. I spent about a half hour that first
day.<BR><BR> I came back a week later with my box of West System
epoxy, their slow hardener and their High Strength/Density filler. I wet all
wood mating surfaces with unthickened epoxy, then mixed in the filler to a
peanut-butter consistency and applied that to all surfaces. Mooshed the cap
piece in place and scraped off squeeze out. Pushed bridge pins back in with
pliers. Cleaned up squeeze-out. Put a couple spring clamps on to keep all in
place.<BR><BR> Came back a few days later (today), put strings back
on, pulled up to pitch, tuned piano.<BR><BR> My on-site hourly fee is
$60/hr. and I charged her $200 for the bridge repair (that included a $20
flat epoxy fee). So I guess I put a total of three hours into the repair
(that included a half hour in my shop prepping (putting together a box of
epoxy supplies, etc.). Plus tuning of course - so the total was
$295.<BR><BR> I though this was about the easiest and most
straight-forward bridge repair I have ever done - usually they present some
additional challenge.</FONT></DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>--
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<DIV><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Jon Page</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>