Driving Tuning Pins

[BSimon1234@AOL.COM]

Someone wrote;

<< 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.  >>

I have found that with CA treatments and tapping the pins, that the results 
are additive. You get a certain benefit from either method, and if you do 
both, the resultant pin torque is even greater.  It might not be necesssary 
to do both if the improvement from the CA treatment alone puts you into a 
good torque range, leaving in place the ability to tap the pins  years down 
the road.

I favor CA treatment THEN tapping when both are called for. Leaving the pins 
high allows room to put the CA around the base of the pins without making a 
mess on the coil. With glycerine/alcohol treatments, if the coil got 
glycerine into it, it would later rust on the inside.  I doubt that the CA 
glue damages the coil or wire, but treatment is easier and more neat if done 
first.


Bill Simon
Phoenix