Double drilling pinblocks: Hand held versus drill press.

[Avery Todd]

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Thanks, Carl,

Obviously, Terry has never lived in a really low-humidity locale and
had a piano come in from somewhere like Florida, or Houston for that
matter, that had been there for many years! :-) I have!

Avery

At 12:09 PM 2/9/04, you wrote:




>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:54 AM
>Subject: Re: Double drilling pinblocks: Hand held versus drill press.
>
>
> > And what would Florida have to do with pinblock replacement?
>
>
>Well, Terry, when I lived in Florida the humidity was about 175%.  Okay I'm
>eggszagerating, but I wouldn't call it a dry heat.  So if you move the piano
>to a drier locality, it loses weight.  Cracks open up and you gotta fill
>them.  I think I'd use left over hanging chads with some west systems epoxy
>to fill the holes, drive the pins in wet and tune it before the epoxy gets
>too hard.  Okay, not the first choice for high end work.  (Gotta pull your
>chain every chance I get, (G).)
>
>Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
>Santa Clara, Ca.
>
>
>
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> > > Actually, I've never replaced a block, don't have any plans to ever do
> > one,
> > > unless I get a piano from Florida, that is.  (G)
> > >
> > > Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
> > > Santa Clara, Ca.
> >
> >
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