shimmed tuning pins

[Don]

Hi Tom,

Turn the piano over and apply *lots* of CA glue from the bottom. I would
rather err on the side of too much CA glue than not enough. I have used as
much as ten ounces on an upright.

At 10:55 AM 2/17/02 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 2/17/02 9:17:06 AM, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes:
>
><< 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. >>
>
>Didn't shore up bottom before applying glue, but I did remove the action and 
>place newspaper underneath.  I read on the list recently that someone uses
an 
>entire bottle of thin viscosity CA glue on a pin block.  Well, no more
than a 
>couple of drops could be use on each pin, due to the fact that it would 
>create a puddle around the pin, and not descend down into the hole.  So, 
>needless to say, none dripped down through the block to the newspaper
below.  
>When I removed the pins, there was a little dam, or wall, of CA glue 
>protruding above the plate.  It seemed like very little went down into the 
>block.  So I wonder if the previous glue treatments really could form a
block 
>which is holding the pins up.
>
>I used a car jack with a 2x4 on top of it to shore up the pinblock when I 
>hammered the pins in.  (I ordered a pinblock jack from APSCO but they messed 
>up entire order, and it didn't get sent.  See next post.)
>
>Tom Sivak
>
>

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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