[CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?

[Mccoy, Alan]

 Grade 2  steel typically. Weaker than grade 5 or grade 8.

Alan McCoy


> From: David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>
> Reply-To: David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>, CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 09:48:32 -0700
> To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?
> 
> 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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>> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
>> reggaepass at aol.com
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 9:20 AM
>> To: caut at ptg.org
>> 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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