Hi Ron, Now see, you've been a big help! I thought that's how it would be done...just wanted to make sure I was actually doing it right! You rock! Joy! Elwood Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT Piano Technician/Technical Director Department of Music 145 Fine Arts Building The University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238 731/881-1852 FAX: 731/881-7415 HOME: 731/587-5700 -----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman [mailto:rnossaman at cox.net] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 11:21 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fixing stripped screws Elwood Doss wrote: > Now Ron, I'm known for being a little slow. I can easily see how you > use a toothpick because you stick some glue on it and insert it in the > hole. It goes on one side of the hole and closes up the hole some. Now > with leather do you cut a thin strip like a toothpick, put glue on it > and insert it? Do you make a funnel with the glue on the outside and > slip it in the hole? Just how does one make this repair? See, I am > slow....but I do get there! Best personal regards! > Joy! > Elwood Well, you could use your $750 carbon fiber and titanium cybertronic guillotine to cut faux toothpicks out of leather to a tolerance of 0.00005", and insert them with the aid of a $1400 binocular microscope, or you could whack out something roughly eyeball appropriate with scissors, slather it with Titebond, and poke it in the hole with your long thin tweezers, followed by the screw. Troglodytes like myself use plan B. It's not high tech, but it gets me there nicely. You're just partially filling the hole with something screw friendly, with whatever glue is necessary to anchor and reinforce the whole mess. Ron N
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