<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: Name this bolt, please.</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body> <div align="left">Okay, I name it Harold J. Throckmorton, Jr.</div> <div align="left"> </div> <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> <div align="left"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "John Delacour" <jd@pianomaker.co.uk> </jd@pianomaker.co.uk><br/>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 3/21/2008 6:35:05 PM<br/>Subject: Name this bolt, please.<br/><br/> <div align="left"><br/></div> <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> <div><br/></div> <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> <div><br/></div> <div>JD</div> <div><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div><br/></div> <div align="center"><img src="cid:lyre_screw.jpg@39528.7808638079.493"/></div> </div> </body> </html>