Al, I dont see the problem with using Delignit blocks if you are careful with your drilling. It seems that drilling is the key no matter what block you use. I personally like to drill a sample piece after cutting and shaping the block to fit the flange and then waiting to see what time does to it while waiting for other parts and strings to arrive. Doesnt matter which block just see what the sample did and adjust accordingly. What went wrong? Could have been too tight from the factory (never seen this before on a Baldwin J) and someone tried to heat or otherwise treat the pins and their solution went awry? It could have been a spill of some kind. Heck, could be just about anything, no? What happened is kind of a moot point. It now is, what it now is. Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to effect a solution. Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté www.gregspianoforte.com 216-226-3791 (office) 216-470-8634 (mobile) From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of AlliedPianoCraft Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 1:18 PM To: Pianotech List Subject: Pinblock for Baldwin SF-10 I am installing a new pinblock in a Baldwin SF-10. This piano is only 10 years old, but the pinblock has been destroyed by the use of metal tuning pin sleeves in combination with CA glue (about 30 to 40 sleeves and glue all over the place). I can't imagine a 10 YO piano with what appears to be a Delignit pinblock get so loose that it required this kind of desperate repairs. My question to the other rebuilders is this. I have always used Bolduc pinblocks in Steinways and Masons and have used Multi-Laminate pinblocks in lesser pianos, (never had loose tuning pins in 40 years), but I have never used a Delignit pinblock. Should I replace this pinblock with the Delignit (which now scares me) or one of the others? Also any thoughts on what might have gone wrong with this piano? Thanks for any input Al Guecia Allied PianoCraft PO Box 1549 High Point, NC 27261 (336) 454-2000 PianoTech at alliedpianocraftcom <mailto:PianoTech at alliedpianocraft.com> www.alliedpianocraft.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080114/127a613a/attachment.html
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