[CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?

[David Ilvedson]

Remember the screws we use to be able to get from American Piano Supply?   Steel...not plated, etc. all sizes...they were made of what kind of steel?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Don Mannino" <DMannino at kawaius.com>
To: caut at ptg.org
Received: 6/3/2009 9:30:52 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?


>Metric wood screws?
> 
>hmmm . . . . although I suppose there are such things, I have never had
>a problem interchanging them.
> 
>I have used www.boltdepot before as well - very quick service, and a
>good selections of bolts and screws.
> 
>Don Mannino

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>reggaepass at aol.com
>Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:20 AM
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>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?


>...and mighten it be metric? 

>Alan Eder


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don Mannino <DMannino at kawaius.com>
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Sent: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 7:43 am
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?


>Maxim,

>Have any good hardware stores in town?  Buying screws is a pretty basic
>activity. . . 

>If the next size screw is too long, trim the tip on a grinder to keep it
>from bulging the finish on the top side of the lid.

>It's usually called a lid lock bar, or a lid stiffening bar.

>Don Mannino

>-----Original Message-----
>From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org
><mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org?> ] On Behalf Of
>maxpiano
>Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:54 PM
>To: caut at ptg.org
>Subject: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?

>A church I serve has had the piece that holds the lock to the lid on
>their Yamaha C7 pull loose.  (I know, I know--after 50+ years tuning, I
>should know the name of the piece.  The book on nomenclature is next on
>my list to get).  I have never run up against this before.  But the
>screws (2 7/16" 
>flat head brass--#12?) do not protrude much into the lid and I'm
>wondering how well my standard fix for stripped screw holes (leather
>lining the hole) will hold unless I can find a slightly longer screw.
>Is any such screw available -- perhaps 1/8" longer?  I fear the point
>pricking the finish of the other side if I go too long.

>Bill Maxim

> 

>Maxim

> 


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