On 1/22/2011 3:09 AM, Dean May wrote: > Since Susan encouraged me to try applying CA without tilting many years ago > I've found great success doing it. I rarely tilt a piano anymore. I use a > bulb syringe that I get from the hobby store where I buy my glue. It gives > great control and lets me put the glue right where I want it. I put my > headlamp on so I can see better to not apply too much so that it won't run > down the plate (much). It's also best to pull the action way from the > strings a little, or hold the damper pedal down while doing this. Over > exhuberance in the application will cause the CA to run down the strings and > glue the damper to the strings. At least that's what someone told me... Thanks for making my day, Dean. Just hold a shop towel under the tuning pin area to catch anything running down ... and I find CA still works awfully well in small quantities. It just loves chasing tiny cracks and gluing them together, which takes very little volume to achieve (YMMV?). I like to keep it away from the termination area, which isn't that hard to do with a light hand and a towel pressed against the strings just below the pin field. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110122/647cadd4/attachment.htm>
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