Running CA

[Farrell]

I leave the piano on its back for a day or two or three after CA
application. I have tried using the kicker as Bill B suggested, but you run
into the problem of it foaming up - and that can really make a mess -
especially if you have a bit of it pooling between the plate and the
pinblock top. I have also wondered about how effective the kicker is in
making all the CA solidify. I know on other applications where I have put on
a bunch of CA and been able to observe all areas, I have seen the CA wick
through a piece, spray CA on one side and that side will harden, but the
other side will not have hardened. I would fear in the pinblock application,
that you could load up on the CA, spray the kicker, have the top areas
harden and leave some still liquid inside, and put in the action, tune, go
home, and get a call the next day for a frozen action. Maybe that is
far-fetched, but there is still the problem of foam-up.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Running CA


> OK, two people suggested just leaving the piano on its back a day or two,
and
> in some instances that should work fine.  But I do hate doing that, when
> there are kids in the house who think that would be so fun to play under
the
> thing, and I usually have the lid removed because otherwise it will flop
down
> anyway, so that has to be set somewhere, and sometimes the room is small
even
> when the piano is upright....  I see some problems here, but if that's
what
> the rest of you do, it should work for me, too.
>
> Regards, Clyde
>
> Don wrote:
>
> > Hi Clyde,
> >
> > Just leave the piano on it's back for 48 hours.
> >
> > >I've seen techs recommend applying CA around the tuning pins until "the
> > >piano won't take anymore."  I guess that's alright for grands, since
the
> > >stuff will just lay there until it gets hard.
> > >
> > >But what about uprights?  I tilt them onto their backs to do this job,
> > >and I like to return them to normal position before leaving.  But
> > >sometimes the CA is still liquid, so I dab out the excess to keep it
> > >from running down the plate when I "upright" the piano.  How does one
> > >add CA "until the piano takes no more" and avoid this problem?
>
>
>