[pianotech] broken agraffe

[Terry Farrell]

Don't laugh! For sure I'd replace it if you can find/make a suitable replacement. But I'd be real curious how a proper epoxy repair would hold up. The only issue here is that you have a rather small surface area for the repair, but even still, IMHO, I think it would work just fine. And if it didn't, you're no worse off - just some wasted effort.

Terry Farrell

On Aug 21, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Dean May wrote:

> Ha! For this one I thought I'd go the Terry Farrell route and use West
> System 2 part. :-)
> 
> I'm a little stumped, as the break is pretty jagged and recessed, not very
> accessible. Nothing to grab ahold of vise grip wise. 
> 
> Yep, several others on this pinaner have been changed which makes for an
> interesting string plane. 
> 
> Dean
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> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Nossaman
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> Subject: Re: [pianotech] broken agraffe
> 
> On 8/21/2012 6:58 PM, Dean May wrote:
>> I have never encountered one of these before. Patient is an old 9' HF
>> Miller grand with agraffes all the way up. This happened on F#7.
> 
> 
> And...??? The CA didn't work? <G>
> 
> Yea, that is a weird place for a break, rather than the shank. The short 
> replacement is going to look funny too. Bummer. What's the shank size 
> and thread?
> Ron N
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