[pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?

[CHARLES BECKER]

I'll miss that Rockler store in Danvers.   They sold soygel stripper as 
well.  Guess I'll have to order online.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pianolady50 at peoplepc.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?


> Unfortunately, our Rockler will be closing it's doors at the end of this 
> week.  Closest one will be an hour away. (Cambridge MA or Salem NH)
>
> Debbie L.
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "CHARLES BECKER" <cbeckercpt at verizon.net>
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 3:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?
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>> Stewart/ Macdonald is good as is Rockler tools water thin.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <A440A at aol.com>
>> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 1:49 PM
>> Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's?
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>>> << CA glue with relatively good results. After sitting in on one of Ed
>>> Dryburg's seminars at a convention I've been using his method to treat 
>>> pinblocks
>>> when necessary. I'm fairly pleased with the results--and I particularly 
>>> like that
>>> the results are almost immediate. But in speaking with other techs, a 
>>> lot of
>>> them use PinTite or Garfield's, and they SWEAR by it.  >>
>>>
>>>     Let them swear! And then let them tune their results.
>>>     Other than CA, all of the pin tightening fluids I encountered left a
>>> greasy, vague, spongy feeling in the block.  I was never comfortable 
>>> that the
>>> string was actually anchored, since it was difficult to tell when the 
>>> pin began
>>> to move.
>>>   I have used CA a lot, and it is head and shoulders above anything else 
>>> I
>>> have seen.  I like the #10 water thin from Stewart-Macdonald guitar 
>>> supply.
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ed Foote RPT
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