Instructions I have seen for disassembling a lyre to re-glue loose joints use a reversed pipe clamp. I find this doesn't work terribly well in practice much of the time, and have come up with a different method, driving the dowels out of the holes. I had occasion to do that this morning, and the camera was handy, so I took the following shots. I am using a large bolt with the head ground smooth as my punch, and a couple pieces of scrap wood as supports. In my shop at home I do a nicer setup, straddling the top of the lyre on a cross beam, but this is what I had handy at the university, and it worked just fine. Fast, effective, and it doesn't loosen the bottom joints (if they are still solid). If the bottom joints need to be disassembled, a similar process works for them, after removing the pedal mechanism and the bottom. P3310001.JPG P3310003.JPG P3310004.JPG P3310005.JPG Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/b89ef56f/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P3310001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 21262 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/b89ef56f/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P3310003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 20761 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/b89ef56f/attachment-0005.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P3310004.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 18894 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/b89ef56f/attachment-0006.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P3310005.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 22980 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/b89ef56f/attachment-0007.jpg>
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