[pianotech] bang spoons at bears

[James Johnson]

William,

At least you thought to take the action out of the piano before you treated 
the pin block.  Don't ask .  By the way, how do you free up a hammer shank 
flange when it is full of hardened CA glue?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruth Phillips" <ruth at alliedpiano.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:12 PM
Subject: [pianotech] bang spoons at bears


> OK, first time reading the digest in a couple of weeks
> so excuse me if I'm behind, but....
> Write while laughing!!!  What a classic.  And who among
> us cannot say - been there, in one form or another...
> like the time I glued myself to an ivory with nobody home
> and the solvent in trunk of car...
> Bill, you're great.
> Ruth
> Ruth Phillips
> ruth at alliedpiano.com
>
>
>
>>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
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