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<div>Everyone's invited for a boat ride on the brand new "Lake of the Ozarks (Southern Branch)". The boat house, conveniently, is located where my piano repair shop was before Noah built the Ark, i.e., just downstairs from my office, which is just off our living room.</div>
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<div>The drought is over.</div>
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<div>By the way (and not everyone knows this), Noah actually built his craft out of steel, using an ark welder. He was able to work 18 hours a day on it, too--with the help of flood lights, of course. See? Bad puns come in pairs, too.</div>
<div><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/></div>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Rich Snelson"
<rsnelson0984@mchsi.com> </rsnelson0984@mchsi.com> <br/>To: "Pianotech List"
<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org> <br/>Received: 3/21/2008 6:55:34 PM<br/>Subject: Re: Name this bolt, please.<br/><br/>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hows the flooding down in Mo, Alan? Did Steelville get wipped off the map with that big rain?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Rich</font></div>
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<div style="background: #e4e4e4; font: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="pianotuner@embarqmail.com" href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</a> </div>
<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> Friday, March 21, 2008 6:44 PM</div>
<div style="font: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> RE: Name this bolt, please.</div>
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<div align="left">Okay, I name it Harold J. Throckmorton, Jr.</div>
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<div align="left">Actually, unless it is decorative, why not just replace the bolts with hex heads right off the shelf?<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/></div>
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<hr/>Original message<br/>From: "John Delacour"
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<pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org> <br/>Received: 3/21/2008 6:35:05 PM<br/>Subject: Name this bolt, please.<br/><br/>
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<div>The carmen delivered a grand last week and when they'd left I realized they hadn't attached the lyre. Then I realized why : they'd lost the bolts and hadn't the nerve to tell me. It turns out another team picked the piano up, and "they were tired and couldn't remember", poor souls. Besides, the lyre wasn't fixed properly at the house etc. etc. The old ones are the best!</div>
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<div>They probably won't bother to find them, so I have the problem of getting new ones. Luckily the thread is 3/8" British Standard Whitworth and as a last resort I could have a welder make them up from coach bolts, but I'd rather look for the proper things first. The question is : what do you call a bolt of this style that is not a wing bolt?</div>
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<div>JD</div>
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