At 08:30 PM 11/16/1999 -0600, you wrote: > > I believe that using the kicker when doping pinblocks may be a mistake, > > because it might set up the top layer, leaving the rest, deep in the hole, > > sealed in so that moisture and air can't break down the stabilizer. > > However, this is merely conjecture on my part. > > > > Susan Kline > >As long as we are on conjecture, I can imagine the action of CA glue on >tuning pins. > >It "glues" the pin to the sides of the pinblock hole. When the pin is >turned this >breaks the bond. The pin now is coated with bits of dried glue and broken off >pinblock crumbs. The pin is now held because it is rough as in a >rasp. And the more >it is turned as in tuning..... are you getting the same picture I >am? The reason >for my conjecture is that once I put CA on bass T pins, and voila they >were tighter. > >Then I had to let the bass strings down and when I turned them back up, not so >voila, as in, as they were. ---riconjecture Dear Ricon, As an alternative picture, perhaps when the joint breaks the glue stays stuck to the wood, which is porous, and takes with it a thin layer of metal corrosion from the pin? Maybe whoever has a totaled old wreck might drip in the CA, wait a week or two, turn a few pins to break the joints, and then chop the whole thing open to see what is there? Susan
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