C/A glue question

[David Ilvedson]

I've never done but it should be much easier to apply upside down.   I'm not sure how much you would add to each pin?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Jim Johnson" <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 10/26/2007 7:50:17 AM
Subject: C/A glue question


>I recently tried to treat a grand pinblock with C/A glue and very little of 
>the glue penetrated past the plate bushings.  Needless to say, I didn't get 
>the usually expected result.  Has anyone tried turning a grand upside down 
>and treating the pin block from the bottom?  The pin holes come out the 
>bottom so there would be a well into which the C/A glue could be applied. 
>I'm not sure I want to be the first to try it, but If I don't get a 
>response, I probably will be.  The customer (a piano teacher of course) 
>can't afford a new pinblock and is just a few years from retirement anyway.

>Thanks,
>James H. Johnson, RPT