CA PLUG+

[pianoman]

I have run into the problem of pins too close to the side of a strut and I
got one of the Reduced shaft size tips from Schaff and I have yet to find a
pin I couldn't get it mostly on without bending the pin>
James Grebe
R.P.T. from St. Louis
pianoman@inlink.com
"Take me through the darkness to the break of the day"

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> From: JIMRPT@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: CA PLUG
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 1997 10:53 AM
> 
> List, CA Groupys;
>   I know that this might be old hat to CA types but............
>  In restringing an instrument one of the tuning pins was so close to a
plate
> strut that it was impossible to get the pin punch to bypass the strut. 
Never
> being one to let reality stop me, I used a large drift punch to set the
pin
> at the proper height. In pulling the two strings involved up to tension I
> found that the tuning hammer would not fit on the pin either ! (alright
I'm a
> slow laerner). :-)
>   I managed to get the pin out by forcing the 'T' hammer on the pin,
applying
> sideways pressure, and back it out.  Now the pin hole in the 'new' block
was
> in the exact center of the hole in the plate, obviously something else
needed
> to be done. 
> I checked on the old block and sure enough that pin hole was offset.
>   I plugged the hole with pinblock stock after running a little CA into
the
> old hole.
> Using the large drift punch I seated each plug in the block. I allowed
the CA
> to set while I cleaned up a little bit of the mess I had made.  Then I
> redrilled the hole , offset this time, (see I 'can' learn if you expalin
it
> five times) and problem disappeared.  
>   Total elapsed time, 10 minutes at most.  Thanks to all extolling the
> virtues of CA and using it on pinblocks.
> Jim Bryant (FL)
>