west system in blocks

[Farrell]

Tell ya what, I've smooshed West System epoxy into just about every crevasse
on a piano - but not yet into a tuning pin hole. What about small diameter
pin-block plugs?

Web Phillips also sells his Wood Restorer. It appears (smell) to be a
polyester-based product. Fixing enlarged tuning pin holes is one of the
applications he recommends the product for. I did it one time years ago -
and whereas is worked, it made quite a mess ('course maybe that was just
me).

Terry Farrell

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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:38 PM
Subject: west system in blocks


> Greetings,
>     I had hoped to never have to do this, but the owner's father died, she
> had to move the 1953 Steinway B out of Florida, NOW,  and it was
unplayable with
> the rusted strings.  I laid out all the alternatives, etc,  and she said
that
> just restringing it was all she was able to do at the moment. Action will
be
> brassy, but it does play.
>    So,  as I unstrung this thing,  I kept finding bent pins.  Now that I
am
> restringing it, I find that 4/0 pins are only giving me 80 in/lbs in
places, so
> I worry.  Have done some CA dosing on the looser ones and it helped, but
> before I put the bass strings in,  I wondered,  what is the long term
prognosis of
> the use of swabbing the West System resin compound I read about here last
> year.  Has anyone seen this hold up for a length of time?  And, how much
did you
> use?
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Foote RPT
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>
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