good price for CA

[gordon stelter]

Wear a gas mask and back the pins down a bit, first,
if they seem too tight. Also: CA seems to harden more
over time, so tuning within a few days might be
advisable.
     Thump

--- David Vanderhoofven <david@vanderpiano.com> wrote:

> Maggie,
> 
> I agree with William here.  I would be cautious
> about using more than 2 oz 
> of CA on a piano, and probably never more than 4 oz
> of CA glue on one 
> piano.  I had an unfortunate incident a few years
> ago... very old 4' 
> something no-name grand, heavily rusted, AND...
> previously treated with 
> some unknown pinblock treatment.  I used 4 oz of CA
> glue, and since it was 
> out of town, wasn't able to get back for a few
> weeks.  Fast forward a few 
> weeks, and during tuning I found the tuning pin
> torque excessively 
> high.  The piano was almost untunable because the
> torque was so high.  AND, 
> a tuning pin snapped off flush with the plate.  Joy!
> 
> Also, please be very careful sniffing those fumes
> from the CA glue.  If you 
> have to choose between your health and patching
> together a marginal piano 
> using CA glue as a bandaid, consider that you only
> get one set of lungs.
> 
> Sincerely,
> David Vanderhoofven
> Joplin, MO
> 
> At 08:08 PM 1/26/2005, you wrote:
> > > Personally, I
> > > choose
> > > not to buy CA in anything other than 2oz
> bottles, even for pinblocks.
> > > Rarely have I ever needed more than 2oz to do a
> whole block.
> >
> >
> >Really?!?!  I haven't done enough of them to know,
> but the one I am
> >working on took a 2oz bottle in a VERY small
> section.  That's why I
> >ordered the 8oz bottle.  Probably not the thing I
> will regularly run into,
> >I guess...?
> >
> > > Best,
> > > William R. Monroe
> > >
> >
> >
> >THANKS!
> >-Maggie, WV
> 
> 
> 
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