<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">If you spot solder the rails as in the buckpiano web posting, can you then fill the gaps with epoxy?<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Kent Swafford wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Custom jigs can set the heights as well as the spread. See attached.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span><IMAG0093.jpeg></span></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="black" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> <div> Hi Dan<br>  Thanks for sharing the nifty set up. I was trying to think thru your procedure. Would it be something like?<br> 1.  Check & record the action spread spread,elevation, lateral location and tilt of each rail?<br> 2. Set up the turnbuckles on the old rails before removal?<br> 3. remove one rail and set up the turn buckles , check tilt elevation, lateral alignment and solder?<br> 4. Next rail, same procedure?<br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="clear: both;"><b><font color="indigo" size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2">Dale S. Erwin<br> </font></font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2"><font size="1"><a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com/">www.Erwinspiano.com</a></font></font><br> <font size="1">Custom restoration<br> Ronsen Piano hammers<br> Join the Weickert felt Revolution<br> 209-577-8397</font></font><br> 209-985-0990</font><font size="1"><br> </font></b><br> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: bergpiano <<a href="mailto:dan@bergpiano.com">dan@bergpiano.com</a>><br> To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a><br> Sent: Sat, Mar 26, 2011 5:36 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_e89372b1-4f7b-441b-b64e-4dfe14bfad26" style="margin: 0px; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Hey guys check it out. <a href="http://www.ejbuckpiano.com/Charlie/KeyBoard/Action.html" target="_blank">http://www.ejbuckpiano.com/Charlie/KeyBoard/Action.html</a> <br>  <br> Dan Berg <br>  <br> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Love" <<a href="mailto:davidlovepianos@comcast.net">davidlovepianos@comcast.net</a>> <br> To: <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>> <br> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:31 AM <br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails <br>  <br> >I didn't realize that the brass was toast. You're sort of stuck then. For <br> > $600 you can learn a lot about soldering. <br> > <br> > David Love <br> > <a href="http://www.davidlovepianos.com/" target="_blank">www.davidlovepianos.com</a> <br> > <br> > <br> > -----Original Message----- <br> > From: <a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a> [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org?">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>] On > Behalf <br> > Of Ron Nossaman <br> > Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 9:24 PM <br> > To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> <br> > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Riding the rails <br> > <br> > On 3/25/2011 10:51 PM, Ed Foote wrote: <br> >> David asks: <br> >>> >BTW are you sure you can't salvage them with some wood rot doctor type <br> >> stuff. <br> >> <br> >> The brass is split all to hell. I have had John Dewey do some before, as <br> >> well as Chris Robinson. However, at over $600 for installing two rails <br> >> that cost about $70 each, plus the delay in shipping and waiting, I <br> >> gotta find a better way. I can handle most of the foreseeable problems, <br> >> but have never soldered anything that heavy. <br> > <br> > Considering the profit potential, I can't imagine why not. <br> > Ron N <br> >  <br> </div>  </div> </font></font> </blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>