[CAUT] pin block strangeness

Conrad Hoffsommer hoffsoco@luther.edu
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:03:09 -0600


At 09:23 3/14/2005, you wrote:
>Ah, decal pianos.  What a wonderful tradition!
>
>I can't remember who told me this, but I did hear of someone successfully
>fixing a problem like this by turning the piano upside down and filling the
>gap with liquid epoxy, like West System.  I guess the top of block would
>have to fit to the plate pretty well, though.
>
>Ken Z.


If you are worried about the epoxy creeping in above the pinblock - 
understandable, given the rest of the fit - first jam a cord or maybe some 
upstop rail felt down(up?) the gap as a dam. Then do the epoxy bit.

my 2¢






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