Loose tuning pins in bass

Ted Simmons ted@PALMNET.NET
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 14:07:22 -0500


What consistency of super glue did you use?  It comes in thin, medium and
heavy, and now they have a gel.  I think I'm convinced to try the CA glue
method but I'd like to know what consistency I need to buy, or will any of
them work?

Ted Simmons

>        I've used the super glue in the method that you've described and
>am nothing
>short of amazed at the results.  I recently tuned a piano where nothing
>held and they just
>bought it for far too much money. What was I to do but take a stab at it?
>I put the super
>glue around each pin twice and it in about 10 minutes it felt like a new
>piano. Definitely
>not mushy like the usual pin tightener application and ready much faster!
>So far I'm
>sold on the results. Just find a hobby shop to sell it in a large enough
>bottle.
>                                Greg Newell
>
>Greg and Mary Ellen Newell
>Greg's Piano Forte`
>Lakewood, Ohio 44107
>gnewell@en.com




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