<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Hi Cy,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Give some consideration to plugging.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Should be lots in the archives.</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>John M. Ross<BR>Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A href="mailto:jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca">jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=741662027@charter.net href="mailto:741662027@charter.net">Cy Shuster</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 05, 2004 2:56 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Pinblock partial replacement?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Does anyone have handy a reference to repairing a pinblock by routing out the center section and replacing it?  I've looked in these archives and in the 20 years of the journal, and haven't found it.  Searching on "pinblock" gives a lot of hits!  Even adding "insert, partial, and router" doesn't help...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>My friend has a Chickering grand with a stepped, curved, two-piece block to replace, and this looks like a good approach.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy Shuster--</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Rochester, MN</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>