CA gluing Grand pinblocks

[Alan R. Barnard]

Interesting ... like a post from a mystic oracle. I learned tuning, in part,
watching and rewatching you and the late, great George Defebaugh on Randy's
tapes. Of course, I knew you existed and did a lot of PTG training but, gee,
here you are in living pixels.

Can you or anyone out there in cyberspace recommend a good, comprehensive
write-up on using this stuff in pinblocks? I see much potential for the, uh,
shall we say, "less-experienced" to really screw this up.

Regards and thanks,
Alan R. Barnard
Salem, MO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Coleman, Sr." <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 1:27 AM
Subject: CA gluing Grand pinblocks


> Hi to all:
>
> As one who has successfully used CA glue on individual pins in
> Grands with great success, I began to imagine the future problem
> which will arise when one tries to remove the plate later if the
> entire pinblock is so treated.
>
> It occurred to me that a simple solution would be to remove the
> action, turn the piano up on its Bass side and treat the bottom of
> the pinblock with CA glue. This avoids the problem of the plate
> sticking to the pinblock, but it solves the problem of getting the
> CA glue directly to the tuning pins. If this helps anyone, you may
> send the check directly to my email address. Actually cash is
> preferred.
>
> Jim Coleman, Sr.