My opinion is that this technique is not correct. There should be no reason to pull the pin, but once you did you should have swabbed the hole with the CA and reinstalled immediately. I suggest you go back to the archives and read the mass of data already there. I would have backed the pin out a bit, treated with thin CA, then a touch of the accelerator, waited, then tuned. You seem fairly cavalier in experimenting on a customer's piano, using little forethought, Is this correct? Or was this perhaps a junker piano you were "parting out?" Bill Simon Phoenix <<Well today, had an upright with a real loose pin knocked in as far as possible. Not having paid attention to previous threads on CA glue (super glue to me). I did it for the hell of it: I took out the pin and with my little 3gm tube smeared the pin with the glue, let it dry then tapped it back in and it was surprising tight. Main question - is technique correct? Yes or No answers in lines of 20 or less please. >>
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