Name this bolt, please.

[Alan Barnard]

Everyone's invited for a boat ride on the brand new "Lake of the Ozarks (Southern Branch)". The boat house, conveniently, is located where my piano repair shop was before Noah built the Ark, i.e., just downstairs from my office, which is just off our living room.

The drought is over.

By the way (and not everyone knows this), Noah actually built his craft out of steel, using an ark welder. He was able to work 18 hours a day on it, too--with the help of flood lights, of course. See? Bad puns come in pairs, too.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "Rich Snelson"  
To: "Pianotech List"  
Received: 3/21/2008 6:55:34 PM
Subject: Re: Name this bolt, please.


Hows the flooding down in Mo, Alan? Did Steelville get wipped off the map with that big rain?
Rich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Alan Barnard 
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 6:44 PM
Subject: RE: Name this bolt, please.


Okay, I name it Harold J. Throckmorton, Jr.

Actually, unless it is decorative, why not just replace the bolts with hex heads right off the shelf?

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO




Original message
From: "John Delacour"    
To: "Pianotech List"    
Received: 3/21/2008 6:35:05 PM
Subject: Name this bolt, please.




The carmen delivered a grand last week and when they'd left I realized they hadn't attached the lyre.  Then I realized why : they'd lost the bolts and hadn't the nerve to tell me.  It turns out another team picked the piano up, and  "they were tired and couldn't remember", poor souls.  Besides, the lyre wasn't fixed properly at the house etc. etc.  The old ones are the best!


They probably won't bother to find them, so I have the problem of getting new ones.  Luckily the thread is 3/8" British Standard Whitworth and as a last resort I could have a welder make them up from coach bolts, but I'd rather look for the proper things first.  The question is : what do you call a bolt of this style that is not a wing bolt?


JD
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