James Thank you for the description. My main concern is using the customer and a "drinking buddy" for?help. I might ask a customer to open a door for me, and maybe carry?my tool bag.? But I would never?ask a customer to help carry any piano parts, much less help moving or turning over a piano.? It probably won't happen, but what if the piano slipped, and?fell on his leg? What if his "drinking buddy", got his fingers caught under the piano? What if they dropped the piano, and even though no one got hurt, it damaged the piano, and you wound up having to do extra work? Who's going to pay for that? The list is endless. I'm glad everything worked out, but I would caution you not to do this in the future, unless you can get two or three men that you hire to help you. And make sure you are covered. As far as the fumes are concerned, if you have to wear a mask to protect you, perhaps its not something you should not be using, at least not in that quantity, in such close quarters. Just my 2 cents worth. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: James Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 5:12 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] upside down CA job report I removed the action and the music rack, then the lid.? With the lid gone we could roll the piano over on the straight side (after checking the lyre for stability and removing the left front leg) using the lyre as the pivot point.? We left the lyre and two legs on the piano.? We then rolled it all the way over letting it rest on some padded 2X4s on top of a plastic tarp (just in case some of the CA glue escaped).? The customer and one of his drinking buddies helped me flip it over.? The difficult part was laying down on my side and working in the action cavity.? The CA fumes were very concentrated in that small space and even though I had a fan blowing directly on the work, it was still very strong.? Next time I will use a more powerful respirator and some sealed goggles (the type they make for chopping onions will probably work).? Also perhaps some sort of vacuum system to suck the fumes outdoors. ----- Original Message ----- From: wimblees at aol.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:08 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] upside down CA job report James Thanks for the update. It is always good to hear the results of a rather unorthodox repair. My big questions, and/or concern, is how did you flip the piano over and back? You probably told us about that 6 months ago, but I forgot. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: James Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net> To: toddpianoworks at att.net; pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 2:29 pm Subject: [pianotech] upside down CA job report About 6 months ago I shared my experience of treating a grand pin block from the bottom with the piano upside down.? I had previously treated it from the top, but because of the plate bushings, I didn't get good enough penetration to make much of a difference. Anyway, today I returned to do the 6 month tuning and I'm happy to report that the piano is holding well and all the pins feel quite good.? If I didn't know that the pin block had been treated, I probably wouldn't have noticed that the pins felt different than any other older piano.? I would definately consider using this technique again if circumstances warranted it.? The piano, a Harrington grand, was not worth doing any major rebuilding, nor could the customer have afforded it anyway.? This process saved the piano for what I hope will be a number of years, and for this customer's use, it worked out well. The Average US Credit Score is 692. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090406/8b30425f/attachment.html>
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