A challenge for CA glue.

[BSimon1234]

THE PIANO: 
A donated no name baby grand, years ago extremely heavily doped with
Garfield's ( pools of brown sticky stuff that has hardened), - no pin
bushings, most pins would need vast improvement to come up to zero pin torque.
( You know, - they jump 5 notes flat when you release the tuning hammer)

THE SITUATION: 
Little old ladies club, their big yearly scholarship fundraising event is in 5
days with a "singing group" coming in do a program, "PLEASE - PLEASE, do what
you can." My work basically pro-bono. (I occasionally do some.)

THE PLAN:
A great piano to experiment with! What's to lose?  I intend to try putting CA
glue (thin- medium- thick ?) into the pin wells where the bushings should have
been, letting it set up and then tuning.  The piano was previously  tapped
about as far as it can go. I will remove the action and shield the key bed,
etc.  It would be very difficult to turn this piano over to treat the bottom
of the pinblock due to its location and my feeble back.

REQUESTING YOUR HELP:
I wish I knew this was coming up, for I would try water thin epoxy, but no
time to get that now. I would like to know how thick the CA should be, how
many grams or ounces might be needed, waiting times,  - ANYTHING that would
help.  Also, IS THIS LIKELY TO WORK? - I will report to the list, because if
CA works in this piano it should work anywhere. Is the CA likely to work as
well as an epoxy treatment? For this much CA glue the fumes will be awesome.
Anything to do there besides ventilation? Should I drop a drop of water into
the holes after the CA glue? - What about accelerators?

Please feel free to e-mail me directly, but I will be anxiously watching the
list. If it doesn't work right away I would still have  time to burn down the
building and save the ladies from grievous embarrassment.

Thanks,
Bill Simon
Phoenix