John, PLEASE don't use one of those metal sleeves! If you're going to remove the pin probably the best fix would be replugging the hole with a multilaminate plug from Webb Phillips, then drilling and inserting a new 2/0 pin. Cleaning the hole out and driving in a larger pin is an option, but not a good idea if the block is cracking as you fear. Saturating the base of the offending tuning pins (withour removing the pins) after you've gotten the pinblock reasonably dried out, and the general area cleaned up, is a very reasonable "least invasive" option. But like I said, forget the metal sleeve. Best, Patrick Draine On 8/4/06, John Radley <jjradley at yahoo.com> wrote: > Then, I plan to remove the offending > pins to (maybe?) permit further drying - and try replacing them with > slightly larger (or at least inserting a sleeve) to see if I can get the > piano to hold pitch on those spots.
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