Pinblock CA after Dope?

[Cy Shuster]

Andrew,

You're in a dry part of Texas, right?  I was surprised a while back to see 
Guy Nichols post that good ol' glycerin pinblock dope worked better for him 
in his dry environment than CA (because CA needs moisture in the wood to 
cure it).  Have you tried it?

I saved his post because I'll be setting up shop in Albuquerque when I 
graduate this spring.

--Cy--

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew and Rebeca Anderson" <anrebe@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 8:10 PM
Subject: RE : Pinblock CA after Dope?


> I'll elaborate a little more.  It was an upright and I trickled the CA in 
> with a hypodermic syringe while upright.  It kept soaking it up but with 
> remonstrances against overdoing it fresh on my memory I figured a "lite" 
> treatment would be fine.  It was, for the first four tunings.  I had to 
> crack the pins loose to tune them the first time.  By the fourth time many 
> were loose again and I broke out the CA glue.  It would not take-in to the 
> wood.  Tilting the piano may have helped the second time around.  My 
> philosophy now is: protect the floor or action and give it as much as it 
> will drink.  The glue's cheap and the time involved is not so long.
>
> YMMV,
> Andrew Anderson