This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment You are absolutely correct! Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Avery Todd=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: Re: Double drilling pinblocks: Hand held versus drill press. Thanks, Carl,=20 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!=20 Avery=20 At 12:09 PM 2/9/04, you wrote: ----- Original Message -----=20 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/f1/a3/e5/c9/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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