Pin Dope

Keith A. McGavern kam544@ionet.net
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 02:24:27 -0600


Les Smith posted:
>Interesting. Although I've never actually done it, I have considered dril-
>ling a small hole too. Many times in an older piano the plate bushings are
>worn enough so that the first treatment soaks in pretty good, but the same
>solution that swells the pinblock also swells the plate bushings, making the
>next treatment more difficult. Would I be correct in assuming that you dril-
>led your hole through the plate bushing on the side opposite the pull of the
>string?

Wherever I could gain access with the largest bit allowable, Les.

Keith A. McGavern, RPT
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Oklahoma Baptist University
Shawnee, Oklahoma





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