Interesting topic

[Tom Cole]

Hi, Don,

I haven't yet used CA on tuning pins and, therefore, I'm reluctant to
experiment on a customer's piano without having done a few jobs on
basket cases that would otherwise be thrown away.

I can visualize, on a grand with unbushed tuning pins, that it would be
easy to remove the action and drizzle some thin CA down into the holes
of the loose pins (at convention, I bought some neat nozzles from Ed
Dryburgh that fit onto the caps of the Hot Stuff glues - no more
microspaghetti tubing). On a piano with bushed pin holes, though, would
that require drilling first? 

However, it seems to me that you would have to tilt an upright to do
anything approaching a neat job and, since I don't normally carry my
tilter with me (the heavy, steel kind), I have used the easier methods
like driving the pins in further a/o inserting shims.

Anyhow, I'd be curious to know how you would deal with an upright that
has, say, 6 or 8 loose ones in the low tenor, where the tuning pins are
grouped tightly.

Tom

ps: Carl, I had forgotten about using veneer. Thanks for the reminder.
Something to try next time.

Don wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Why not just use CA glue. It is fast and effective.
> 
> At 02:03 PM 7/14/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >Tom Cole wrote:
> >> I think a good case could be made for using a sleeve. Not the metal
> >> kind, which gives a poor feel, but a piece of 150 or 180 grit sandpaper,
> >> used with the abrasive side out.
> >
> >I've never seen a metal sleeve that worked.  Sandpaper increases pin
> >torque only margainally, in my experience, and doesn't always stay put
> >during installation.  If a shim really is indicated, I prefer walnut
> >veneer about 3/16" wide.  Plenty of torque, nice feel.  Thank you, Fred
> >Drasche.
> >
> >Carl
> >
> >
> Regards,
> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
> "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts"
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-- 
Thomas A. Cole RPT
Santa Cruz, CA