Thanks for letting me know. Sure, I'd like to see it in the Journal. I think it would be of interest to quite a few technicians. If not now, it will be when they encounter their first cracked plate! Check with Steve first, however. Del ---------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Oliver Snelson <rsnelson@dave-world.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: April 14, 2000 9:52 AM Subject: Re:Balwin Plate Repair > Del, > Wanted to let you know the Balwin is up to 440 and holding. I haven't > cleaned up and refinished the strut but will in the next few weeks. The > steel strap won't be very noticable since there are no visible bolts > sticking through it. And since the welds are horizontal they will barely > show after finishing. > > I would be glad to write up the repair with pictures for the journal if > you think anyone would like to know about it. "Lock-N-Stitch" plus > welding. This is the second piano I used this combination repair on. I > was able to do it with the plate in the piano and by removing only 8 to > 10 string either side of the strut. Dampers the same. Makes it easy to > test the engineering of the repair, with out all the work of restring > etc,etc. > > Thanks again for the help on this. > Richard
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