I've done the swabbing the hole with CA on one bass tuning pin. You never know if the becket is going to break... '-[ David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Mark Cramer" <cramer at brandonu.ca> To: caut at ptg.org Received: 5/5/2009 7:39:35 AM Subject: Re: [CAUT] pin-block plugging? >Hi Susan, > >Someone had *plugged* several stripped screw holes in the tubular rail, and >tightening the flange screw simply augured the plug out of the hole. IOW, >the flange and flange-screw made a dandy plug-puller, just not the kind of >demonstration you need to see 30 minutes before curtain time. > >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. > >The piano I'm needing to plug is a 1920's Steinway that has several problem >holes, but should still be a long way from needing a new pin-block. (read: >it will have to make it on the wood it's got for a few more years) > >Fred mentions routing out and replacing a section, which is also a great >repair (I made a jig, it's here somewhere.), however the problem-pins in >this block are kind of here and there throughout. > >Meanwhile, I'm not really able to look at that particular piano until >August, but at least I'll know what to do when the time comes. > >Thanks everyone for sharing your experience, I really appreciate it! > >Best regards, >Mark Cramer, >Brandon University > > > > _____ >From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan >Kline >Sent: May 4, 2009 7:43 PM >To: caut at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [CAUT] pin-block plugging? > >Like at a concert-hall a few years back when it became immediately apparent >why the C6 flange on their older D was lifting every time I tried to tighten >the screw. (Any guesses?) >The very end of the action screw had broken off in the hole, possibly >because it was crazy-glued in? And so tightening jammed the rest of the >screw down against the stub? And sawdust perhaps was driven out of the hole >and under the loose flange? >(Am I warm? Or way off base?) >Manitoba -- maybe too dry in winter to have CA glue work well? Maybe if you >took out the loose tuning pin, swabbed the hole with something damp, put the >pin back in and then dripped in the CA? (or wet the tuning pin with the CA >and then turned it back in.) >Susan
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