On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Dean May <deanmay at pianorebuilders.com>wrote: > Good responses so far on why not to use the accelerator. There are a > couple of instances where it is judicious to use acclerator- but only after > you've let the CA soak as long as you can. If you are treating a vertical > piano laying on its back or a grand that is flipped upside down, then mist > accelerator over the pin field or holes to set up any left over puddles of > CA that didn't soak in. Otherwise, those puddles will turn into drips when > you right the piano, and one universal law when using CA is that drips > always go where you don't want them. > > > ** > Sometimes when I use accelerator, it turns the CA white (even when misted). I'd hate to have that happen anywhere on the plate. I wipe up the drips with a paper towel and/or Q-tips. Just don't see any need for accelerator on a pinblock job, although it might be useful if you've flipped a grand upside down and in a hurry to flip it right side up. -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101203/cfd1947d/attachment.htm>
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