This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Which also would be a good reminder for to let the owners know, before = beginning work, of your disclaimer about breaking strings etc...they mi= ght just get it in there heads that it had something to do with the CA = glue... David I. Original message From: "Alan Barnard" To: Pianotech Received: 9/23/2005 9:33:50 AM Subject: CA Observation: Food for Thought I tilted and thoroughly soaked an 1890 piano a while back. When I start= ed tuning, the bass strings--which sounded amazingly okay--nevertheless= started breaking: POW! So we agreed to replace the wound strings. In removing the old strings,= I had to remove the pins because the wire was fused (rusted?) in the b= ecket holes on many of them. Anyway, there were crusty clumps of CA (or something) on the old pins t= hat I couldn't even chip off without major effort. If this happens rout= inely, then the pins are turning with the equivalent of heavy-grit sand= paper scraping the wood! Seems like an argument for following Susan's advice and going on the li= ght side. This could use further study, methinks, or at least reporting here on i= ncidental observations. I won't stop dousing pianos because I've seen s= ome amazing results in saving otherwise dead blocks, but we may be fool= ing ourselves, a little, on the long term results. Alan Barnard Salem, Missouri ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/5a/77/69/09/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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