<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Glue in a plug of pinblock material and redrill.  </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <div> <p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt; color:navy'>David Love<br> davidlovepianos@comcast.net<br> www.davidlovepianos.com</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Clark Sprague<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, July 15, 2006 6:23 AM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> pianotech@ptg.org<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Pinblock Repair</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hi, all!  Yesterday I worked on a 1915 Bluthner Grand.  I could only talk the husband into "Just make it work".  Then I talked to the wife, and was able to get a little farther with her, a new set of Arledge bass strings, with CA the block, file hammers, a little regulation, etc.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>    A previous tooner had put some universal strings in the bass (poorly), and had used some of those infamous "sleeves" in the tuning pin holes.  I pulled those out, and figured that as loose as those pins were, I'd put in 3's (1's came out), and 4's in the sleeved holes.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>    To my horror, when putting in the new strings and pins, there were 2 holes that actually had 2 sleeves in the holes, and when removed, the 4's actually fell through the holes!!!  I had a few 6's, and one of them worked.  The other still went through the hole.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>    My question is:  What are your thoughts on repairing the hole with veneer? I have restrung numerous pianos, and I have never ran into this before.  I think I know how to do this, but I wanted to get your thoughts on the proper way to accomplish the repair.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>    I know, I know, I don't like using 6's either, maybe the thing to do is to repair both of those holes.  I have regular thick veneer, and double thick veneer to work with.</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Clark A. Sprague, RPT</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>    </span></font></p> </div> </div> </body> </html>