[CAUT] pin-block plugging?

[Dan Reed]

Ron..also, driving a pin just a tad, may tear fibers, and thus, tighten 
things up..where as, allot of pin movement from tapping, may flatten 
the fibers...!!!???

Dan
On May 5, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Dan Reed wrote:
>> I use CA maybe 5 times @ year...been doing this for 15 years...
>> What helps tremendously, if the CA doesn't do the trick, is to tap in 
>> the pins._..just a little bit_...a small amount of depth increase 
>> does a disproportionally amount of good...
>> Really...try it....knocking them down to the plate is not necessary 
>> to increase the tightness...Ron will probably tell us why....
>
> Certainly! It's because tapping them down only very slightly makes 
> them so disproportionately tighter. If it doesn't, then driving them 
> down on the plate won't either. QED. As to why driving a pin such a 
> small amount (in a viable block) makes them so much tighter, I haven't 
> a clue. But I don't think those coils got on the plate all at once. I 
> suspect it's a continual tapping with each tuning over time, like the 
> relentless bridge top string seaters, that, in spite of the fact that 
> it continues not to work longer then the tuning takes (time after time 
> after time) through the years, continue to apply the only remediation 
> they believe they believe. You know. If you keep pushing the button 
> every couple of seconds, the elevator will eventually come, and might 
> even hurry.
>
>
>> Save your breathing apparatus for more important things, like getting 
>> oxygen into the blood....
>
> And yelling at the computer...
>
> You do, don't you? <G>
> Ron N
>