Samick leg bolts

[jolly roger]

Jon,  I'll send you one,
roger  


At 11:24 PM 2/23/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I went to move a Samick the other day and the leg bolts were hex cap head.
>
>Fortunately the movers who set it up put them on finger tight so getting them
>off was no problem. To secure the legs, I snugged them up with a pair of
pliers
>since I didn't have a hex key that large.
>
>Does anyone know the size of the hex key so I can have one on hand in the
>event of another Samick encounter?
>
>Another interesting thing happened during the move.  While packing up the 
>trailer
>at the end, I found a short phillips head machine bolt.  I figured it fell 
>out of the piano
>so I went back in to investigate.  The treble nose bolt had fallen out!  I 
>retrieved my
>flashlight and inspection mirror to find the stud was about an inch away 
>from the plate.
>I turned it back up from underneath but the holes did not align but close 
>enough to force-
>fit. The stud was loose enough in the beam to start to turn while 
>attempting to install the bolt.
>I set the stud height to the plate and secured it with vise-grips while 
>threading the bolt in.
>Evidently what had happened at the factory was that the stud was backed-off 
>from the plate
>during installation and was hanging-on by a few threads. Fortunately the 
>plate through that
>section is quite thick so I don't think any damage was done.  Make you 
>wonder though...
>
>Regards,
>Jon Page,   piano technician
>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
>mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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