<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Plate</font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="2"> welding is dubious at best(talk to the Loch -n -stitch guys) and in the piano.... very risky bizness in my opinion.</font> <div style="color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">www.Erwinspiano.com</font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: paul bruesch <paul@bruesch.net><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Sat, Dec 8, 2012 10:04 am<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Plate welding question<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_874c3fd9-dfbd-4f2a-8290-1801aa9586fd"> The product/procedure frequently recommended here for repair of plate cracks would be Lock-n-Stitch. <div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.locknstitch.com/">http://www.locknstitch.com/</a></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Paul Bruesch</div> <div> Stillwater, MN<br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Euphonious Thumpe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"> <div>A friend just picked up (free) a great Bush and Lane art-case grand, but with vertical cracks along both sides of the 2 tubular bulges in the 2 struts in the treble area, near the pin web, where 2 nose-bolts pass through. (Created, I suspect, when a 2-thin pinblock was installed, and the plate screwed into the case without lowering the nosebolts first, to get their shoulders temporarily out of the way.) He wants to weld them (with the plate still in the piano, maybe) and as I have no experience with such, am humbly appealing for information.<br> <br> <br> Thanks!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> Thumpe</font></span></div> </td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div> <br> </div> </div>  </div> </div> </font>