Out here in the arid desert, I don't use pins. I wipe the key bottoms with methanol, then dab on a super-thin Titebond solution. Ease from above where needed. Lube the pins with McLube or something. No more pulley. Regards, Guy At 05:12 PM 6/27/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Hey Wim - >A bunch of good suggestions. My one addition is to swap the hole with >some alcohol, before applying warm to hot sizing solution. If the keys >are dirty, the solution just seems to sit without absorbing into the >fibers unless I've used something to break the water's surface tension, >. Otherwise, my current preference for older keys is probably more along >Don's "pin-less" approach. For new keys, I'd probably try the pin-caul >method, if I had the correct size pin. > >David Skolnik > > > >At 12:33 PM 6/27/2005 -0400, you wrote: >>Ok, you guys, help me out here. I should probably know this, but I'm >>having trouble glue sizing my balance rail holes. >> >>I put the glue in the hole, wipe off any excess, and then put the key >>back on the balance rail. I wipe off the glue comes out the top. After >>the glue dries, there are three problems. 1. the balance rail punching is >>sometimes glued to the bottom of the key. That's an easy fix. 2. The glue >>at the top of the pin dries to the bushing. When I remove the key, >>sometimes the bushing come off and I have to rebush. 3. I have to clean >>the glue off the balance rail. >> >>What am I doing wrong? >> >>Wim > > >_______________________________________________ >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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