CA Glue / Pin tightner

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Keith,
As long as you have the CA in hand ( it will work the best on tightening the
pins where the west system will not ) you might consider doing the bass
bridge with CA as well. Here I use my tipper at a 45% and fill each hole,
crack or whatever till it is almost to run at each bridge pin and move on to
the next pin.
I find thar treating each pin twice works best followed by the activator.
The activator seems to swell the glue just a tad ( would not use activcator
on a grand due to whitish color that results from too much activator )
hopefully holding the pin better.
Use something like a newspaper to shield the wrapings from activator
contamination.
CA to the rescue <G>
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <kpiano@goldrush.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: CA Glue / Pin tightner


> I was told that CA glue works well after pin tightner. I'm going to find
out this week as
> I'm going to try CA on a piano That pin tite was used. Also I'm going to
use the West
> system epoxy on bass bridge pins with cracks around them. I'll give a
report at the end of
> the week.
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> Keith R
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> > Joe e.a.,
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> > Thans for the reply.
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> > What i was wandering about, is if the ca glue would hold on the sticky
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> > mess left by the formerly use of pin tightner?
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> > Maybe that's a bizare question but if there wasn't been pin tightner
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> > used formerly , i would have repin the piano with pins a few sizes
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> > larger.
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> > Pierre Gevaert
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> > Belgium
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> >   ----- Original Message -----
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> >   From: Joe And Penny Goss
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> >   To: pianotech@ptg.org
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> >   Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 5:42 PM
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> >   Subject: Re: CA Glue / Pin tightner
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> >   Pierre,
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> >   It has been my experience that the CA glue will make the piano
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> > tunable. But consider it the last rites for that piano unless you plan
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> > on restringing and installing a new block in the future.
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> >   So far I have only used CA on terminal patients. Not on pianos of
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> > great value.
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> >   Joe Goss
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> >   imatunr@srvinet.com
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> >   www.mothergoosetools.com
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> >     ----- Original Message -----
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> >     From: Gevaert Pierre
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> >     To: pianotech@ptg.org
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> >     Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 9:19 AM
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> >     Subject: CA Glue / Pin tightner
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> >     Hi list,
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> >     I'd like to experiment with ca glue on an old piano witch has lose
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> > tuning pins.
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> >     This piano has already been treated with pin tightner a few years
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> > ago. (pins still a little to loose)
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> >     Suposing that it is not possible to put new pins because the former
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> > use of this stuff called pin tightner.
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> >     I was wandering what would be the reaction/effect of the ca glue
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> > versus pin tightner.
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> >     Any comments?
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> >     Thanks,
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> >     Pierre Gevaert
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> >     Belgium.
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