opinions on this CA job for loose tuning pins

[William R. Monroe]

Hi John,

There's been a lot in the archives on this, I'd recommend a search for all 
the opinions.  In short, (in my opinion) yes, Ultra Thin CA is appropriate 
and very effective for this - bushings or no.  If your CA is globbing, it's 
too thick for this application.  The globby stuff is fine for swabbing 
holes, but not for applying at the base of the pins.

Further, I'll pretty strongly advocate the position that:

1.    Not much CA needs to be used (On a BAD piano, I often use between one 
and two oz.)
2.    The piano need not be tilted - Ultra thin CA wicks in very well 
through the bushings to the block with the piano vertical.  About the only 
thing tilting has allowed me to do is apply more CA than the block was 
willing to wick in.  As you apply it to a vertical piano, you can easily 
watch the CA wick in and see the bushings start to reach the point of 
saturation.  I stop just before I really think I need to and move on.  If 
it's really bad, I'll come back for a shorter second pass immediately 
thereafter.

Best,
William R. Monroe

> This piano is a 1994 Baldwin Acrosonic. There are probably 30 or more 
> somewhat loose pins, with up to 10 needing definite attention, 
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> Does CA work well for this kind of thing?
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>What I'm also wondering is will the CA get past these new pin bushings 
> >down into the hole?
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> Thanks,
> John Formsma