This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Yes, John, You're right about the aesthetics. New S&S "D" use chromed = w-pins but they'd look a bit out of place in an older S&S unless the = rest of the beast was totally-but-totally rebuilt, all the bright metal = knobs and rim bolts rechromed etc. etc. and so forth. Then with all that = bright work the pins have to be chromed. As for the gunged up holes someone was just recommending use of reamers = according to the size of the new pins.... there's a thought.=20 Yet... I'm trying to get this basic query of: Use same size new pins as = old pins and use CA as a tightening agent...;-) Guess there's no harm in = using a reamer to clean out the holes though...? Or even your rifle-bore = brush in a slow speed drill...? Regards from windy old Sussex Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: John Ross=20 To: Michael Gamble=20 Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 10:11 AM Subject: Re: re-stringing and CA Hi Michael, They sound like they would need a good cleaning, to get rid of the = residue, that mucked up the old pin threads. Possibly a good cleaning with a metal gun bore type brush would be = enough of a clean, that the new threads wouldn't get gummed up. I sometimes find that new chrome pins look out of place in an older = piano. John John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael Gamble=20 To: John Ross ; pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 4:21 AM Subject: Re: re-stringing and CA Hello John Thanks for your input! ;-) In fact the old pins aren't as described = in this particular case. The thought of using new chrome instead of = blued pins just for the look of them and in the hope that same-size new = pins might possibly, with the use of CA, be an option.... In reaming the = hole a larger size pin is indeed the only option.... but if it doesn't = need reaming ... what then? This is for open discussion so I'm posting = to the List ----- Original Message -----=20 From: John Ross=20 To: Michael Gamble=20 Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 10:44 PM Subject: Re: re-stringing and CA Sounds like the holes need reamed to new wood. Then the low torque = pins as suggested, size determined by the amount of wood removed. Regards, John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael Gamble=20 To: John Ross ; pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 6:36 PM Subject: Re: re-stringing and CA Hello John and List The old pins are grotty, rusted and deformed and would not be = worth preserving and re-bluing. Apart from which the old pins will have = their scoring (the end part of the pin which is in the plank) filled = with old wood particles and rust. The new pins will be chromed and = indeed .. new. The object is to find out what your collective reaction = is to CA-ing in new pins. Regards Michael G.(UK) ----- Original Message -----=20 From: John Ross=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: Re: re-stringing and CA Hi Michael, It doesn't make sense to buy the same size, new.=20 If you want to try the C/A, save your customer the cost of = the new pins, you can always 'reblue' the old ones. John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael Gamble=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 5:35 PM Subject: re-stringing and CA Hello List Thought I'd start a thread about re-stringing. We usually = use the "next-size-up" tuning pins when re-stringing but basic science = tells me that the smaller the pin the less unwinding leverage on it from = the string. So. How about a new set of tuning pins the same size as the = old and using CA to "glue" them in....Ha! Ha! Regards from a darkening wintry Sussex village Michael G.(UK) ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/b2/d1/fd/f2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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