Hi Barrie, thnx for your reaction. So the idea of drilling out the holes was not that bad after all:) Best regard, Wim Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 22:20:44 +0100 From: Barrie Heaton <Piano@forte.airtime.co.uk> Subject: Re: restringing a Broadwood Boudoir grand First of all welcome to the list Wim, There are several ways to approach this problem. Some may say walk away is one. However, I hardly think that's what you want to do. For the odd loose one, I have used PTFA tape this is what plumbers use for a water tight seal. You remove the pin and wrap some tape around the pin turn the pin in then turn it out two and a half times put the string through the eye and wind up and coil. I recently tried some CA glue again I removed the pin and dipped the pin in to an open bottle of CA glue tapped it on a piece of paper To remove the excess glue and waited for the glue to dry. Follow the above approach for putting the string on. The glue puts a fine film over the threads, it was a bit of a sod to get going at first but once in, it was tight. Both the above methods I wouldn't recommend for a full piano two time consuming and two inconsistent for an overall neat job, but ok. for odd pins. The best method is to drill out existing holes and fill with a good quality epoxy resin, re-drill for double 00 pins and put two sizes up back in, you will have a very tight tuning pin, they don't seem to turn that bad. I personally have only one this way last year, after reading about using epoxy resin on this very list. I was happy with the results. Kind regards, Barrie.
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