<HTML>In a message dated 9/3/2003 1= 0:29:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cgpiano@humboldt1.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: bottom board crack Date: 9/3/2003 10:29:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:cgpiano@humboldt1.com">cgpiano@humboldt1.com</A></F= ONT> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A>= To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet          Carmen</BLOCKQUOTE><= FONT COLOR="#000040" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY= ="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">    &nbs= p;   &n= bsp;     Plywood slats run across the crack. Glue and sc= rew together.             Dale Erwi= n <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">   At the risk of asking about a topic that has already been covered...<= BR>     What is the preferred method to repair a crack in the bot= tom board of an upright (for clients who cannot afford to replace it)?   I have seen some repaired using a few steel "mending plates".  A= re there any repair techniques that YOU prefer? Carman Gentile RPT Redwood Chapter </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>