Thanks for the info - I believe my patient was actually a Cable-Nelson console. And I *swear* I could see where the original screw holes were for a normal hinge. However, the vandal-proof notion helps me make sense of *why*. The piano had been in a church for who knows how long. Still, how about WD40 on hammers - someone? Anyone? Beuller? -ilex }-----Original Message----- }From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On }Behalf Of Tom Driscoll }Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 2:34 AM }To: Pianotech }Subject: Re: WD40 again } } } }----- Original Message ----- }From: "ilex cameron ross" <i1ex@earthlink.net> }To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> }Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 7:31 PM }Subject: WD40 again } } }> Another one of my fun appointments this week was an }> almost-impossible-to-open upright. Nothing out of the ordinary about this }> piano, just your average console. Except that some DEAR soul had for some }> unknown reason gone and removed the lid hinges and replaced them with }> unbendable thick L-shaped pieces of steel held in place by thick rusting, }> stripped, allen-wrench bolts. *frustration and strife* }> }> ilex } } Ilex, } The Everett studio "school" pianos have that arrangement to "vandal- }proof " the piano. } and the reason that they are stripped is probably from attempts to }remove them with an incorrect tool. } I service quite a few of these and have the correct Allen wrench in my }kit. } I'm too lazy to go out to the shop to measure but my recollection is }that the wrench is 1/4" size } In a pinch you can remove them by inserting the shaft end of your handy }hammer (the one that fits into the combination handle) into the bolt as a }make shift tool. }Don't make a habit of this as the bolt is a lot harder than the }tool and the }tool will lose the fight. } DAMHIK } Tom Driscoll } } }_______________________________________________ }pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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