Hey Dean What are you doing to this old beast. I Love the relics from 1890 to 1910. Real Tanks... with real redesign potential & gogeous cases. Real jig saw puzzles. Do you have an full glamour shot of this Beauty. Just remember these paraphrased words from Buddy Bob Davis. The key to successful piano work is be able to get yourself out of trouble. Wow...been scorching my ears all week. Now it's your turn Dale Piano: Hallet Davis 6’5” I previously posted about my grief in cutting apart the cabinet to expose the plate flange. I got all set to pull the plate but then I spotted another place where the plate was tucked into the cabinet. Now I’m all set, right? Nope. Got the back end lifted about 5 inches but the front end wouldn’t budge. I’m thinking it has been glued to the pin block. On closer examination I barely saw on the treble end that the bottom of the front flange extended under the big piece of oak. Great! More cutting. But it finally came. I made parallel cuts with a circular saw then chiseled out chunks. I was finally able to get a pry bar under the oak to pry against the hidden plate flange and the whole front piece popped off. It wasn’t pretty but it worked. You can see on the right where I drilled into the oak with a 1.25” spade bit to try to see what was going on and how far the flange extended. It did show me how deep I needed to set my circular saw blade. They really didn’t want this puppy to come out. It’s probably old hat to some of you but it is the most embedded one I’ve run across (not that I’ve pulled that many plates- maybe 3 or 4 dozen). Hopefully now it will come out. I post the pictures for your general amusement and as a warning to the faint of heart who are thinking about rebuilding a same era Hallet Davis. Blessings, Dean Dean May cell 812.239.3359 PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 Terre Haute IN 47802 [Image Removed] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 10565 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0005.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 11331 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0006.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 25995 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0007.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 22249 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0008.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 19574 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080606/3794f61c/attachment-0009.jpe
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