---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 26-jan-04, at 20:47, Michael Gamble wrote: > Hello Liszt and Joe & Penny > This thread about tightening wrest pins using CA glue is a very=20 > interesting one. The problem is I have absolutely no idea what CA glue=20= > is. Maybe in UK we have an equivalent. So... Could someone please=20 > describe this glue... What colour is it? ... what consistency? ...=20 > what smell does it have?... Is it water-based and therefore thinned=20 > with water before use?... how large are the containers it comes in?=20 > .... is it a resin glue? ... is it something like PVA woodworking=20 > glue? (which stuff can be thinned down with water in a bucket to=20 > "size" concrete before laying wood-block flooring..:-) Is it another=20= > name for that terrible glue called "Cyano-Acrylate" as used in the=20 > plastics industry and can glue your fingers to your nose (or other=20 > parts of the anatomy). With the same initials this is my guess. It is=20= > this very "thin" glue which=A0comes in quite small white plastic = bottles=20 > with a dispensing nozzle=A0and has a limited "shelf-life". > Question: =A0If you had an old (1895)=A0S&S model "B"=A085 note grand = with=20 > replaced tapered legs and loose Bass tuning pins... would you be=20 > tempted to=A0go the CA route? > I have just such a problem at the moment but I rather think I prefer=20= > the replacement strings and pins option=A0on an S&S=A0of that age. > Regards from the black cold Sussex Downlands > Michael G (UK)=A0 > I have said this before, but, reading your words, I again wonder about=20= the following : Why do we consider using a CA glue treatment, when tuning pin problems=20= actually must be solved with an over size tuning pin and new strings? Is the use of new tuning pins and new strings such a problem? Isn 't it better to tell your customer to pay for a complete=20 re-stringing? If the customer refuses to pay for pins and strings, isn 't it then=20 better to politely, and in a friendly manner, tell your customer that a=20= re-stringing is the final answer? In my experience, new pins and strings are far more preferable, and=20 durable, and in my +30 years I may have lost a customer here and there=20= because of my professional principles, but I am 55 years old, still=20 making money, and I will probably do so until I fall down. So why not go for the very best technical answer? friendly greetings from Andr=E9 Oorebeek Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 0031-75-6226878 www.concertpianoservice.nl www.grandpiano.nl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2857 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/56/80/92/98/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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