opinions on this CA job for loose tuning pins

[William R. Monroe]

Hi Jason,

I use Hot Stuff Red (ultra thin) CA, 2oz bottle and I use the pro tips that 
you can buy for the bottles.  It takes a little getting used to how the CA 
runs out the tip - the first few drops come out faster than the rest, but 
once you get the hang of it, it goes pretty smoothly.

Tip the bottle up and place the tip on the junction of the tuning 
pin/bushing or pin/block.  As soon as the juice starts to flow, I'm watching 
for saturation.  On blocks where I suspect it might not take much, I may 
squeeze the bottle a little, prior to tipping to give me a little buffer. 
If the block isn't taking much CA, I can ease my grip on the bottle, and the 
flow decreases, or, stops.

It doesn't take too much practice to get the feel for how the CA and behaves 
and how it looks when it's wicking into this area.  Same goes for 
determining saturation point - it's something that takes a little 
observation, but isn't too hard to get a feel for.  Probably the trickiest 
part for me is that every block is a little different in terms of how much 
CA it will initially accept.

In honesty, I can't say I've never had it drip.  I can say that it did 
happen for one of two reasons:

1.    first few times I tried it and was learning a good method.
2.    tried to get the block to take more than it wanted - wasn't paying 
attention.

Hope this is helpful.
William R. Monroe



> Couple of times I've tried CA on a non-tipped vertical, it dripped down, 
> got into the string/pressure bar contact point. Big wince, Q-tips and 
> debonder to try to minimize damage. Once it dripped onto a damper. I feel 
> very nervous about trying it again. Can you talk about how you apply it?
>
> Jason Kanter
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