separated pin block

[Farrell]

"Run the dowel through the belt sander to put  a small flat down it."

Or, when using epoxy, drill the hole a bit oversize and thicken the epoxy with a high-strength adhesive filler. The fillers that West System has really makes their epoxy so versatile.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jolly roger" <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: separated pin block


> At 09:53 PM 9/6/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Sounds like a good way to make this repair real neat. I have bent a couple 
> >BIG "C" clamps doing this repair. I have found pipe clamps to work better 
> >for me. But hey, that's just me!  ;-)
> >
> >Terry Farrell
> Hi Terry ,
>                   I have 6 really heavy duty German made C clamps, with 
> lots of torque.
> If  the lag screws go into spacer blocks I dowel the spacers to the back 
> post  with 1/2" maple dowel.   Run the dowel through the belt sander to put 
> a small flat down  it.  A liberal amount of epoxy down the hole. Insert the 
> dowel rod, twisting it as you go. This will allow a space to get the excess 
> epoxy to get out.  It will make the back support nice and solid.
> Roger
>