{"id":706,"date":"2020-08-04T14:05:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/?p=706"},"modified":"2020-08-04T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T17:08:23","slug":"primary-l-board-and-nipple-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Primary L board and Nipple board"},"content":{"rendered":"<body data-rsssl=1>\n<p>The remaining components of the primary valve chest are the so called \u201cL board\u201d (owing to its shape) and the nipple board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The L board can in fact be disassembled further into 2 separate boards, in most cases, in order to replace the gasket that is sandwiched in between, and to make renewing the sealer in the channels easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, the operations on these pieces are the same:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make sure the interior channels of the boards are well sealed, including the junction of the brass nipples in the nipple board<\/li><li>Replace the gaskets on the interior facings of the boards<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>I have discussed these operations already, so here are just a couple of images from the process as I did it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets.jpg?resize=474%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-704\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1017&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/removing-old-gaskets-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>removing old leather gaskets from L board and nipple board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"314\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing.jpg?resize=474%2C314&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-703\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1017&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?w=948&amp;ssl=1 948w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pianola.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/marking-new-gaskets-before-punching-and-gluing-scaled.jpg?w=1422&amp;ssl=1 1422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><figcaption>marking new gaskets (neoprene) before punching and gluing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remaining components of the primary valve chest are the so called \u201cL board\u201d (owing to its shape) and the nipple board. The L board can in fact be disassembled further into 2 separate boards, in most cases, in order to replace the gasket that is sandwiched in between, and to make renewing the sealer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/?p=706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Primary L board and Nipple board<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4SLED-bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pianola.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}