And you have a thin hammer hardening solution at the same time...I will try the cellulose lacquer... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 12/1/2009 5:47:22 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] treating bridges with CA >Hi Barbara >Just thought I'd throw my two bits in here. Personally I never even >think about trying to apply CA or Epoxy to the bridge without removing >the strings. It just ends up being less effective then I want (and know >it can be) and too much of a hassle to avoid getting either onto the >strings. >I DO quite often use Cellulose lacquer in cases where an improvement is >needed but the customer wont pay for the extra time it takes to remove >strings (as I go with CA, complete sections with epoxy). I thin it down >to about 8:1 from the can, use a needle bottle and soak it in as much as >the bridge will take. Its also very easy to cover the bridge notch with >if you need... and has a nice tendency to wick in under the string >filling bridge indentations without getting on the string much at all.. >It does get of course on the underside of the strings back of the bridge >pin... but this is not a problem. Any lacquer that DOES get on the >strings forward of the bridge pins is very easily removed either while >still wet or while dry. >Frankly... I'm doing more and more of this as I find it solves very much >of the exact same problems CA is used for here... is much much easier to >deal with in general and I dont have to worry nearly so much about the >fumes..... tho to be sure Cellulose and thinner is not exactly the most >healthy thing to breath in deeply either. >Try it... you may be surprised. I carry a bottle with me all the time >now... helps clean up falseness of a variety of types. Really handy for >that wavering undefined wangishness found often in the 1' area (octave 5) >Cheers >RicB
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