Loose Tuning Pins-Drink Spilled

[Gordon Holley]

Good Morning Gordon and other contributors.  I'll tune the piano 
Saturday AM and hope to be able to get back to the respondants on my 
inquiry shortly by mid week.  Do appreciate all your suggestions.
Regards, Gordon

On 23 Apr 2003 at 14:07, gordon stelter wrote:

> If you want to do a more cosmetically nice job, flip
> the piano over and apply the CA to the pins from
> underneath. Then put it on top if that isn't enough.
> Yesterday I did a Yamaha/Story and Clark for a church
> like this. Today it tunes like a brand-new block!
> Glorious.
>      ( But I would pre-tune the piano prior to ca-ing,
> as it will put little caps over the pin bottoms,
> inhibiting further downward travel. 
>      But I filled these ones right up, and it had a
> VERY nice feel on all the pins after drying (24 hours)
> after first "letting down" the tension a bit, to break
> the initial bond.
>      Cheers!
>      Thump
> 
> --- Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote:
> > Hi Gordon,
> > My vote is for thinest CA. On the strings you need
> > to replace, remove the pin and swab with thick CA
> > and restring.
> > Joe Goss
> > imatunr@srvinet.com
> > www.mothergoosetools.com
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: RptBob1@aol.com 
> >   To: pianotech@ptg.org 
> >   Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:23 PM
> >   Subject: Re: Loose Tuning Pins-Drink Spilled
> > 
> > 
> >   In a message dated 4/23/2003 4:16:11 PM Eastern
> > Daylight Time, gholley@hi-techhousing.com writes:
> > 
> > 
> >     couldn't see or hear last night.
> >       Could I please hear the YEA'S AND THE NAY'S on
> > an initial step to 
> >     take.  Please refer to Gordon Stelter as "Thump"
> > as we have been 
> >     mistakingly switched around in past discussions.
> >  
> >       
> >       My Regards,
> > 
> >       Gordon Holley
> > 
> > 
> >   Hi Gordon:
> >   Do the step with covering the area under the pins
> > after removing the action.  Use thin CA; use a fan
> > blowing across your work and I don't think you would
> > need a carbon mask.  I never have and I've done
> > quite of few of these "pinblock resurrections". Try
> > to have doors and windows open in the area you are
> > working and warn the customer about the odor.  You
> > may have to schedule this at a time when there are
> > not many people around.
> > 
> >   It works well!
> > 
> >   Bob Bergantino, RPT
> >   Willoughby Hills, Ohio
> > 
> 
> 
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