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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, April 13, 2003 =
7:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Rib =
Alignment/Installation</DIV>
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<DIV>I've got 15 spruce ribs and a spruce panel. Now how do I get the =
ribs
onto the panel in the right spot? The only thing I can think of is to =
either
put a small tack through the rib bottom in the notch area and then lay =
the
panel into its proper position and push down so that the tack that is =
sticking
up through the rib top makes an indent in the bottom of the panel. Or =
I could
drill a very small hole through the panel and through the rib in the =
notch and
locate the rib with a toothpick or a center pin. I think I will need =
something
like that to keep the rib from skating around during glue-up to the =
panel
anyway.<BR><BR>How have others done this? Thanks.<BR><BR>Terry
Farrell<BR>
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<DIV>The Denver and Boulder chapters just had a joint meeting at Joe =
Woods'
rebuilding shop and the technical demonstration for the evening was =
gluing
new ribs onto a new board, using a pneumatic rib press. To =
keep the
ribs from sliding about when pressure is applied, the ends of the ribs =
were
doweled to the soundboard with hammershank dowels, about an inch in =
from the
edge of the board. </DIV>
<DIV> --David Nereson, RPT,
Denver<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>