CA gluing Grand pinblocks

[Farrell]

Absolutely no problem if windings get glued to pin. They easily break free the next time you tune.

A friend told me that.     ;-)

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: CA gluing Grand pinblocks


> Great idea Jim, but i'm afraid some CA would go all
> the way through the block and glue the windings to the
> pin, or put a cap over the bottom of the pin
> efectively stopping motion through the block by tuning
> ( or driving ) I HAVE, though, had great sucess on
> REALLY loose pins by turning the piano upside down and
> putting, over the courseiof a week, about 3 full
> bottles of pin tight on the underside of the block.
> really sloidified the pinsn a fabulous 6'2" Conover
> grand I had with spinninpins.
>      Gordon
> --- "Jim Coleman, Sr." <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> 
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