Pinblock too low

[gordon stelter]

How's this for an easy solution to the scraping drop
screws ?: 1)Mark one distict pinblock gouge with a
pen, and note it's position in the scale. 2)Pull the
action and make a scale stick of the drop screws. 
3)Flip the piano over and put the scale stick on the
pinblock, lining up your indexing mark with the
appropriate drop screw mark. 4)Mark the position of
all the other drop screws on the underside of the
block, and extend the marks into lines with a
carpenter's square.  5)File/rasp grooves in the
underside of the pinblock for the drop screw tops to
travel in.
     Hope this helps.
     Gordon Stelter

--- Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Ron,
>          Thanks for the validation. Now that I know
> that the idea I had 
> works I won't hesitate to use it should the need
> arise.
> 
> best,
> Greg
> 
> 
> At 11:27 PM 9/15/2002, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >>Greg;
> >>     You are probably right. The plate would never
> crack just 'pressing' the
> >>pins back up just a bit. You go ahead and do it.
> If it works several times,
> >>please let me know.
> >>I'm just to afraid to try this trick.
> >>
> >>Tommy Black
> >
> >
> >Tommy, Greg,
> >
> >I've pressed up pins that had gotten one too many
> licks with the four 
> >pounder in the restringing process. Yea, I went to
> sleep. I used a little 
> >machinist's jack with a 0.25" pin instead of the
> standard flat top on the 
> >screw. It works fine, and there's no more danger of
> cracking the plate 
> >than wedging under the pinblock for stringing.
> >
> >Seems like I always learn more fixing screw ups
> than I do getting lucky 
> >the first time.
> >
> >Ron N
> >
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