Hi Mark, You say you haven't had success with CA. I agree with Susan: I think it is probably because of dryness. CA needs some moisture to catalyze it under normal circumstances, and most parts of the country there is enough in the wood itself (as well as atmosphere) to set it pretty fast. I notice a big difference between winter and summer application (meaning 5-15% vs 50-60% RH). I tend to apply the extra-thin next to the pin early in the tuning, and blow on it during the tuning from time to time, and usually it will hold by the end. However, sometimes I do find I need to pull the pin, swab, and replace. In which case I use a gap filling formula (a little thicker). I don't find need for accelerator, just blow in the hole, then pound in the pin. Haven't had a time it didn't work yet. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu On May 5, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Mark Cramer wrote: > My good friend Stan just mentioned that he's had good success swabbing > several coats of CA in the hole, then spraying accelerator on the > tuning-pin. Not exactly what you've described Susan, but similar. > I'll have > to give your suggestion a try.
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