A big thank you to this list... I've been monitoring for a month or two now and have noticed several posts about using CA glue to tighten a loose pinblock. I had opportunity to use Dean May's procedure (from a post a few years back) today and it worked fabulously! One caution that I will follow in the future, however, is to have a fan behind me to blow the very unpleasant fumes away. Ideally I'll wait for warmer weather so I'll be able to vent to the outside. When I arrived, the proud new owner of the piano pointed out one non-functioning key (along with numerous badly out of tune ones.) Looking at the front of the action and peering into it from the front (without a flashlight) I couldn't see anything. Pulled the action and immediately discovered the problem. The CANDLE WAX visible in the attached photo was only about 1/4 of what was gumming up the works. Fortunately, it all came out in big clumps. Apparently a careless previous owner burned a candle on top of the piano, exactly on the center hinge joint, and left the house. Maybe s/he was trying/hoping to arson the place... I dunno. Double pitch raise (150c - 250c) and a fine tuning (and only two broken strings) later, owner was quite happy. It's still not a piano I'd want in my house, but it was kinda cool to bring it around. Without the CA procedure, I don't think I'd have been able to accomplish this. Thank you List, thank you Dean! (I'm on my customer's Dean's List now!) Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070209/d4205edc/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: lostWaxAction.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 51440 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070209/d4205edc/attachment-0001.jpg
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