Augie McCollum, my former mentor -gone some years now, used to have the pinblock smeared with epoxy then covered with several coats of plastic wrap so it wouldn't bond with the plate. He said this filled the space between the two, should any gap exist. Fran Helms Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote: > >>I've never deliberately tried to bond a pinblock to a plate. But I once had >>to replace a pinblock in which someone's idea of fitting the block to the >>plate was to smear the block, front and top, with epoxy and bond it to the >>plate. Not fun. >> >>Phil F > >Must have been a fairly clean plate. I've bedded blocks in epoxy, but only >after fitting them first, so I always had some graphite scrubbed into the >irregularities of the iron. Those that I actually checked would pop right >out afterward. It might be that those I didn't check are bonded permanently! > >Ron N > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
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