Lesson learned.....

[gordon stelter]

Leave it for a  couple of days, if possible, and work
the return trip into the fee. I always roughly
"pre-tune" the piano, tilt, come back and fine-tune 
in a couple of day. $250 for upright, $350 for grand,
flipping the piano over on padded boards on tarps. And
I'm considering raising my prices a bit.
     Thump

--- Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote:

> Hi Dean,
> The hardest decision to make is wether to right the
> piano right away or leave it over night.
> A clue, is how much glue is being taken in in each
> pin hole. 
> A welling up and slight pooling tells me that the
> piano does not need bed rest for a day. 
> Any pin or area that seems to not pool up is a
> warning not
> to resurect the piano. Also if the piano has no
> string braid, it is best to leave the piano prone.
> Unless you use the kicker.
> Be sure to have a small picking tool to clean out
> the glue under the string against the termination
> point. The dampers will give you a clue as to which
> ones need to be cleaned.
> Joe Goss RPT
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Dean May 
>   To: 'Pianotech' 
>   Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 8:51 AM
>   Subject: RE: Lesson learned.....
> 
> 
>   OOOOPS! 
> 
>    
> 
>   If you are at all worried about there being excess
> CA glue, just give a light misting of accelerator
> over the pins and wait a minute before tipping the
> piano back up. 
> 
>    
> 
>   Dean
> 
>   Dean May             cell 812.239.3359
> 
>   PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
> 
>   Terre Haute IN  47802
> 
>    
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Kurta
>   Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:59 PM
>   To: Pianotech; Rodney Gorzka; Paul Simkin; Paul
> Kupelian; Nick Smith; Mike Kurta; Michelle Stranges;
> Loren Miller; Ken Williams; John Harrington; Joel
> Levine; Joe Karwacki; Gary Sylvester; Fred Scoles;
> Ed Mastin; Bob Lee; Art Smith; Al Grenning; Tom
> Moonan
>   Subject: Lesson learned.....
> 
>    
> 
>       I made a boo-boo today and I'm posting this so
> no one else should make the same mistake. 
> 
>       1.  Tilted a small spinet on its back for CA
> glue application to the loose pins.
> 
>        2.  Applied CA without incident.  A second
> application followed as most were soaked up by the
> pin bushings.  
> 
>       3.  Righted piano and began tuning, here's
> where it gets good.....
> 
>       4.  Found several dampers frozen to strings,
> and several strings sound dead with no sustain.
> 
>       5.  Finally realize that not all the CA was
> absorbed into the pinblock, but enough stayed on the
> surface to run down the strings when I tilted the
> piano back up to normal, coating the strings and
> soaking into the dampers.
> 
>       6.  Going back Monday to fix it.   The lesson
> here:  Check to see how much liquid is still sitting
> on the plate before uprighting the piano.
> 
>    
> 
>       DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU !!
> 
>       Mike Kurta
> 
>    
> 
>       
> 


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