<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>CA -- going once, going twice, gone ...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body id="role_body" style="font-size: 10pt; color: #000000; font-family: Arial" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">In my experience, CA does nothing to the block that prevents further action, e.g., restringing w/ larger pins, plugging, etc.</font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">"Treated" is a good word, but "doped" sounds like Good Ol' Garfield's Goo, i.e., a marginal, questionable, messy, iffy, last-ditch, nearly hopeless attempt to save the piano. So I would not use the term "doped" in speaking of CA treatment. (Interesting Note: People have reported excellent results using CA on a previously "doped" piano!)</font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The bottom line is this: If the block is "compromised" by normal aging (tunings and seasonal cycling) then CA can be a genuine, lasting, and legitimate REPAIR, not an act of desperation or a "patch job". </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><em>The CA treatment, itself, does not constitute any sort of compromise to the block and does no damage.</em> </font></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I've never had it not work. Those few situations where techs have said it didn't work were due, I'd betcha, to internal crack-ups of the block or serious, unseen structural damage. </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">If the block is "compromised" with splits, cracks, or delaminations CA is certainly not going to fix it, though we may be into a realm where epoxy repairs that might work.</font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><em>Again, CA is a legitimate repair for uprights, clunker grands, and any piano made by Crappola & Sons. It is NOT a rebuild or restoration technique for a fine grand.</em></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">I, like some others, choose to warrant the CA repair because I am such a firm believer in it, based on much experience. Granted this is a marketing ploy, only, but I feel no anxiety that the treated pianos I have out there will fail.</font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">How about this: If the stuff had been introduced as an entirely new invention, rather than a quirky use for "Super Glue", maybe enthusiasm for it would have been greater from the beginning: How about "Patterson's Prodigiously Powerful Pinblock Performance Perker-upper". </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Alan Barnard<br />Salem, MO<br /></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Okay, okay, YOU try 6-word alliterations this late at night!  : - }<br /></font></div> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px" align="left"> <hr />Original message<br />From: Erwinspiano@aol.com<br />To: pianotech@ptg.org<br />Received: 7/19/2007 6:43:16 PM<br />Subject: Re: Extreme measure? was RE: Pricing Pinblock Treatments<br /><br /><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div align="left"><strong><em>  All</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em> Although I've never CA"D a block.  You all have convinced me of it's effective nature but I'm with David on this one.  The block is compromised. NO warranty implied.</em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>   Also if you treat a block in this manner & Later decide it needs strings , is this treated/doped block a worthy candidate or does this not render a potentially restring able block  un useable  <font size="3">and, </font><font size="2">again un warrantable?  Just asking.</font></em></strong></div> <div><strong><em>  Dale</em></strong></div> <blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left: blue 2px solid"> </blockquote> </div></font> </div> </div></font> </body> </html>