shimmed tuning pins

Wimblees@AOL.COM Wimblees@AOL.COM
Sun, 17 Feb 2002 10:10:55 EST


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In a message dated 2/17/02 3:41:12 AM !!!First Boot!!!, Tvak@AOL.COM writes:


> .  (One problem with the CA glue is that it seems to well up in a pool 
> at the base of the pin, and doesn't seem to go down into the hole where 
> it's 
> needed.)
> 
> Anyway, I unscrewed the loose pins and inserted a sandpaper shim, 80 grit, 
> face outward, drove the pins back in about half way or so, and this worked 
> great on all but two of the pins.  On these two, the pins do not seem to 
> thread themselves any deeper into the hole.  I turned and turned and they 
> just twirl in place.  I hammered them in farther and they do hold the 
> string 
> tension (so far, anyway) but they are higher than their neighbors and look 
> strange.  
> 
> What's the deal with these two?  There are a couple more to do, and I'm 
> paranoid that they won't thread their way back in either.  
> 
> Any thoughts or advice?
> 
> Tom Sivak
> 
> 
> 

Tom

Did you shore up the bottom of the pin block before applying the CA glue?  
Are you shoring up the pin block when you drive the pins. What is holding up 
the pins is the glue you put in before. It has created a barrier. 

At this point, considering that the piano needs a new pin block, for which 
the customer probably doesn't want to pay, leaving the pins above the rest is 
fine. It looks bad, but as long as those string hold, that is all that is 
important. 

Wim 

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