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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>BTW are you sure you can’t salvage them with some wood rot doctor type stuff. I just did that on an old rail and it worked out well. Had to build up a couple of enlarged holes with some wood flour/epoxy mix but they seemed to hold and the epoxy infusion seemed to solidify things. It’s not much of an effort to try it, if it doesn’t work you can go to the next step. Just let the stuff soak in with repeated applications and when it seems like it’s taken all it can turn the rail upside down so that you don’t have a pool of epoxy in the hole itself. Let it drip onto something for awhile and then wipe away the excess with some lacquer thinner. You can only do one rail at a time that way but it’s just two days. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ed Foote<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 25, 2011 4:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [pianotech] Riding the rails<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Greetings, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> Well, it has finally happened. I have to replace two action rails in an 85 note Steinway A. There are action rails listed in the parts list, but they are for the 88 note models. I assumed I would chop off the treble section and have only a half hole left at the top. Holly has asked if I want them unbored, mentioning that some techs say they are the same, while others of us say they are not. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> Would someone with experience in this give me some idea of which way to go? I got me a drill press, but the work involved in indexing and drilling is something I would just as soon avoid if possible. However, I don't want to be fighting an alignment nightmare with ill fitting holes. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:black'>thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Ed Foote RPT<br>http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.htmll</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id="AOLMsgPart_1_4849f34d-4e82-47ef-b00a-4644a6b7ff34"><div><div id="AOLMsgPart_1_a1e175a6-2b9f-4598-9c92-fdb8960e4d37"><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>