Leg Plate Screw Anchors

[Farrell]

> As to how to get the screws into the hard wood... do you install
> pinblocks?

Only done a few, and I plugged them. Soon, soon.

> Wood is wood and hard is hard, though hardwood isn't -
> necessarily - but drilling the appropriately sized pilot hole and getting
a
> screw into it solidly is something you already know how to do.

Yeah, just never done oak or hard maple - always softwoods or mahogany and
the like. But I get your drift. Thanks.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: Leg Plate Screw Anchors


> >I would need new screws - where do you get bigger screws
> >like plate screws and leg plate screws?
>
> APSCO, now Schaff.
>
>
> >Another concern I have about screws
> >is that oak & maple are so hard, I should think they really need to be
> >tapped to make threads - how does one do that? It might not be any more
> >difficult to use the inserts or T-nuts as someone else mentioned.
> >
> >Waddaya think?
> >
> >Terry Farrell
>
> I think T-nuts are great for keeping legs and lyres attached to keybeds,
> but wood screws are just fine for leg plate screws. This is oak, after
all.
> I make a habit of checking leg and lyre plates of anything that comes into
> the shop and tightening screws or remounting as necessary. If the wood is
> hard, there isn't a problem. Besides, how are you going to get t-nuts in
> the legs? As to how to get the screws into the hard wood... do you install
> pinblocks? Wood is wood and hard is hard, though hardwood isn't -
> necessarily - but drilling the appropriately sized pilot hole and getting
a
> screw into it solidly is something you already know how to do. No sweat.
> The plate would probably break before the screws pull out from just over
> stressing. Age and termites are something different.
>
> And by all means, sell them a stage truck!
>
>
> Ron N