Absolutely no problem if windings get glued to pin. They easily break free the next time you tune. A friend told me that. ;-) Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: Re: CA gluing Grand pinblocks > Great idea Jim, but i'm afraid some CA would go all > the way through the block and glue the windings to the > pin, or put a cap over the bottom of the pin > efectively stopping motion through the block by tuning > ( or driving ) I HAVE, though, had great sucess on > REALLY loose pins by turning the piano upside down and > putting, over the courseiof a week, about 3 full > bottles of pin tight on the underside of the block. > really sloidified the pinsn a fabulous 6'2" Conover > grand I had with spinninpins. > Gordon > --- "Jim Coleman, Sr." <pianotoo@imap2.asu.edu> wrote: > > Hi to all: > > > > As one who has successfully used CA glue on > > individual pins in > > Grands with great success, I began to imagine the > > future problem > > which will arise when one tries to remove the plate > > later if the > > entire pinblock is so treated. > > > > It occurred to me that a simple solution would be to > > remove the > > action, turn the piano up on its Bass side and treat > > the bottom of > > the pinblock with CA glue. This avoids the problem > > of the plate > > sticking to the pinblock, but it solves the problem > > of getting the > > CA glue directly to the tuning pins. If this helps > > anyone, you may > > send the check directly to my email address. > > Actually cash is > > preferred. > > > > Jim Coleman, Sr. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com
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