Ron..also, driving a pin just a tad, may tear fibers, and thus, tighten things up..where as, allot of pin movement from tapping, may flatten the fibers...!!!??? Dan On May 5, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > Dan Reed wrote: >> I use CA maybe 5 times @ year...been doing this for 15 years... >> What helps tremendously, if the CA doesn't do the trick, is to tap in >> the pins._..just a little bit_...a small amount of depth increase >> does a disproportionally amount of good... >> Really...try it....knocking them down to the plate is not necessary >> to increase the tightness...Ron will probably tell us why.... > > Certainly! It's because tapping them down only very slightly makes > them so disproportionately tighter. If it doesn't, then driving them > down on the plate won't either. QED. As to why driving a pin such a > small amount (in a viable block) makes them so much tighter, I haven't > a clue. But I don't think those coils got on the plate all at once. I > suspect it's a continual tapping with each tuning over time, like the > relentless bridge top string seaters, that, in spite of the fact that > it continues not to work longer then the tuning takes (time after time > after time) through the years, continue to apply the only remediation > they believe they believe. You know. If you keep pushing the button > every couple of seconds, the elevator will eventually come, and might > even hurry. > > >> Save your breathing apparatus for more important things, like getting >> oxygen into the blood.... > > And yelling at the computer... > > You do, don't you? <G> > Ron N >
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