The metal tuning pin insert shims.

[MR STEPHEN R HAASCH]

        When one encounters a piano which has had loose tuning pins and
someone has doped the holes to swell the wood, and the applications seem to
be loosing its effect, or if someone has oiled the tuning pins to ease the
rust and the oil has worked its way into the pin block and made a few of
the pins really jumpy, would an alternative and reasonable fix be to insert
the metal inserts into the tuning pin hole and then reinsert the tuning pin
or one of one size smaller?

>From previous discussions others have mentioned the use of the Garfield
brand fluid.  Yet no mention was made concerning using this brand in a
reapplication with pins which may have had other brand fluids or unknown
brand fluids used previously.

I am aware of no discussion of anyone trying to clean the oil from
contaminated tuning pin holes.  I would assume that this would be a waste
of time because the oil would absorb into the wood and decontaminating the
wood is not particularly a lively option.

Steve Haasch
wllj40a@prodigy.com

>From the back woods of the Florida Alps.