<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Donald Pitter <<a href="mailto:creekside41@yahoo.com">creekside41@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear sirs,<br>How do I repair a broken plate?<br>Don PItter<br> <div class="WgoR0d"><br><br>     ____________________________________________________________________________________<br>Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page.<br><a href="http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs" target="_blank">http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs</a><br> </div></blockquote></div> <div><br><br clear="all">Hi Donald,</div> <div> </div> <div>I believe, IMHO the answer is YOU don't repair a broken plate. Judging from my own experience and those I know well unless it's an important piano, to somebody, a customer, the world at large etc. The best thing to do is to walk away, quickly.</div> <div>If you already have some considerable funds tied up in it then you might consider the lock n stitch recommended by  the others. I do know welding, even by a very good welder, seldom works. I happen to live in an area where we have a plethora of welders because it's taught at the local Technical College for the AC manufacturer that has their main production plant here. So we have a lot of knowledge and talent to draw on all of the welded plates I ppersonally know of have failed, usually right next to where they'd been welded within 2 or 3 years.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike<br>-- <br>Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.<br>Charles M.Schulz<br><br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com">www.IFixPianos.com</a><br> email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>