This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Erwinspiano@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: September 24, 2002 6:48 AM Subject: Broken plates was Grand Treble Bell In a message dated 9/22/2002 11:26:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time, = pianobuilders@olynet.com writes: Subj:Re: [pianotech] Grand Treble Bell=20 Date:9/22/2002 11:26:51 PM Pacific Daylight Time From:pianobuilders@olynet.com Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org To:pianotech@ptg.org Sent from the Internet=20 Del and list While following this thread all this talk of broken = plates ,I just wondered how many have ever encountered a broken plate in = a Steinway or If you'll admit to breaking a plate by adjusting any of = the nose bolts or bell bolts. ANy body willing to fess up? Dale I've not done it but I have encountered one Model D with a nice crack = radiating out on two sides from the bolt hole. Since the bolt was pretty = tight I assumed the crack had started as a result of overtightening, = though I suppose I couldn't really prove it. The owner didn't know when = it had happened--the piano was purchased used for a rather good price.=20 As I've pointed out in the past, neither the bell nor the bolt are = structural and there's not a lot of stress on the plate panel from the = strings in this area so I told the client not to worry about it unless = it grew. I backed it off to my normal finger tight plus one. So far as I = know it has not grown any further--but I've not seen the piano is some = years. Del ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/06/cc/ac/0f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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