<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Looked at the above piano a = customer has in his refinishing shop. The plate in mortised into the rim like some = squares. Someone told him to drill a million holes down through the inside of the = rim and saw the inner rim out to remove the plate, that doesn't seem right to = me, seems that would make fitting a new board more difficult. For those who = have dealt with this in the past, can the stretcher be removed and the rim = pushed apart slightly with a jack or whatever and the plate slid forward? Or = knock the rim apart completely? Or am I the nutty one...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike McCoy RPT<BR>Chapters 170 & = 190 PTG<BR>Langhorne, Pa<BR><A href="mailto:mjmccoy@usa.com">mailto:mjmccoy@usa.com</A></FONT></DIV></= BODY></HTML>