Lesson learned.....

[Alan Barnard]

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Thanks for the warning but .... too late!  Only in my case, the stuff run under the plate on top of the block and dripped onto the carpet. Fortuneately it was a crummy, temporary carpet in a start-up church that meets in what was formerly an auto glass shop--so they weren't too bothered. I had chills thinking what it would have been in a nice new, expensive house ...... brrrrr. I use drop cloths now, always.

Alan Barnard
Salem, Missouri


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From: Mike Kurta 
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Sent: 09/23/2005 9:29:24 AM 
Subject: Lesson learned.....


    I made a boo-boo today and I'm posting this so no one else should make the same mistake. 
    1.  Tilted a small spinet on its back for CA glue application to the loose pins.
     2.  Applied CA without incident.  A second application followed as most were soaked up by the pin bushings.  
    3.  Righted piano and began tuning, here's where it gets good.....
    4.  Found several dampers frozen to strings, and several strings sound dead with no sustain.
    5.  Finally realize that not all the CA was absorbed into the pinblock, but enough stayed on the surface to run down the strings when I tilted the piano back up to normal, coating the strings and soaking into the dampers.
    6.  Going back Monday to fix it.   The lesson here:  Check to see how much liquid is still sitting on the plate before uprighting the piano.

    DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU !!
    Mike Kurta

    
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