On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>wrote: > That's when I first heard about CA...at some convention a long time > ago. Probably a good person to be doing business with... > > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 > ------------------------------ > Original message > From: "J Patrick Draine" > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Received: 3/26/2009 10:21:59 AM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's > > Don, > Dryburgh started pitching CA glue approximately (at least?) 10 years before > you heralded its use on pianotech. He'd give classes (at Northeast > Regionals) extolling its virtues in a wide range of repairs (hammer shanks! > veneer! etc etc.) and then throw in "Hey I even used it on totally > torqueless tuning pin on this wretched Junker Upright, and it held!!" Now, > at that point he wasn't recommending CA as a treatment for an entire > pinblock -- there were lots of skeptics in the classroom back then -- but, > as far as I remember, that was the starting point for its usage as a "pin > block treatment." > Patrick Draine > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Don <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca> wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> With respect, CA glue treatment for pin blocks has been "around" since >> 1996. I don't think that makes it "relatively new". I know this because I >> was the first person to post in public about it. >> > Thanks to all, I again find the intent of my remarks taken to an almost absurd level. The subject at hand was the treatment of pinblocks, piano pinblocks. I have some friends who work for a sign company and they assure me they have never used pinblock material for signmaking. My wife is a nurse trained in surgical settings and she assures me she has never seen anything resembling a pinblock in any portion of the human body, that belonged there at least. I received my first Schaff, Hale, Apsco and Ford catalogs in 1969 and they all offered either Lunsfords, Pintite or both, no CA. I checked and the patent date for Lunsfords was 1964. I don't recall the exact year I first saw CA offered in any of those catalogs nor do they promote it for pinblock treatment in their current issues. Most importantly I was speaking from MY perspective, when I first became aware of it's use for treatment of pinblocks. I was simply attempting to voice my opinion(still America, right?) that CA MIGHT not be the answer for every case. IMHO there might be the occasion when PinTite was the more favorable choice, for pinblocks! Not signs, closing surgical wounds, gluing construction workers helmets to I-beams or the myriad other uses it's been put to. I have old uprights that I treated with PinTite 20 or more years ago that are still going, still tunable, that would be in the landfill otherwise. I don't have that history or provenance with CA. Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com <http://www.ifixpianos.com/> email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090327/960c69aa/attachment.html>
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