Driving Tuning Pins

[Clyde Hollinger]

Jim,

It shouldn't be necessary to both use CA glue and drive in the pins. 
Those are two different ways of trying to solve the loose pin problem. 
How one goes about trying to solve the problem may differ depending on
what is causing the pins to be loose.

Clyde Hollinger

james turner wrote:
> 
> Several technicians have poi nted out the importance of the coil to
> plate ratio recently. On many older pianos, it is standard practice to
> drive loose tuning pins deeper into the block so the piano will hold
> tune again.
> 
> In doing this, the bottom of the coil will be pretty close to the plate.
> Will this cause any new problems?
> 
> With the newer technique of using CA for loose tuning pins, is it
> necessary to drive the tuning pins deeper into the pinblock?  I have a
> spinet Gulbransen piano with loose pins that I will be using CA on.  I
> was just wondering if it is still necessary to drive the pins in along
> with the CA.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Turner