[CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?

[Mccoy, Alan]

There's also MSC Industrial Supply.   http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm
Also McFeeley's - http://www.mcfeelys.com/

But just do as Don suggests. Buy the next size longer and grind off the tip
if it looks like it'll poke through or otherwise damage the finish. #2 steel
is fine. But why not brass (or yellow-zinc coated steel). Brass is softer,
but drill a pilot and you'll be fine.

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 09:59:16 -0700
> To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?
> 
> That's great...and plain steel screws, which Bolt Depot did not have.   I
> wonder if these plain steel are the same as the American Piano Supply screws?
> 
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
> 
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "David Stocker" <firtreepiano at hotmail.com>
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Received: 6/3/2009 9:18:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha grand screws too short?
> 
> 
>> http://www.mcmaster.com/
> 
>> Huge, but easily searchable online hardware catalog. Recommended to me by
>> Del Fandrich.
> 
>> Dave Stocker
>> Tumwater, WA
> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "maxpiano" <maxpiano at sc.rr.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 5:53 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>