William, Since your story doesn't end with an 80 mph dash to the ER, may I say that I laughed out loud when reading it! (Learned something, too) Cheers Nick Gravagne, RPT From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Monroe Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:36 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA for stripped screw holes Oh my, were you close.......... The more like tissue your cloth is, the greater the possibility of combustion. Really. Time to come clean. I used a lot of thin CA on a REALLY loose pinblock once (yes, I've only done it THIS way, once). Note to self: use less CA in the future - less is more. Then, some of the glue very quickly went right through the block and started dripping on the keybed. Note to self: protecting the keybed might be an intelligent step the next time I try and make lake CA on top of a Pinblock. I panicked, grabbed the closest thing that seemed reasonable at the time (key phrase there) and wadded up a kleenex to start dabbing at the drips coming through the block. .............wait for it............. About 5 seconds into this first fiasco, my kleenex burst into flames. Really. Egads, can't have that. Dropped the kleenex onto the keybed and started using the next most reasonably available thing to put out the fire - my tuning hammer. Seemed reasonable at the time. Amazing what your mind can convince you is reasonable when panicked. I once tried to scare away a black bear by "banging" two spoons together - but, I digress. At any rate, careful what medium you choose to do this fix. Glad your story was less exciting than mine, John. William R. Monroe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100114/e8275faa/attachment.htm>
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