<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have heard of a C/A glue treatment being used with success.<div>I have not tried it, but will if it happens to me.</div><div>If you do try it, please let the list know the result.</div><div>Try one pin first, by removing it and swabbing the hole.</div><div>Make sure the pin is not contaminated with anything.</div><div>If it works, then turn the piano on it's back and go to it.</div><div>The other thing to try, is remove the pin and use a wire brush in the hole, to remove the possible glaze.</div><div>If a larger pin is required, then a slight reaming would help. This would give you a fresh wood surface.</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div><div>On 2011-05-09, at 6:10 PM, Wesley Hardman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Approximately 35 year old Wurlitzer spinet has jumpy tuning pins, making it extremely hard, if not impossible to do a fine tuning.  Would it be helpful to treat the pinblock with a restorer material such as Garfield's Pinblock Restorer?  When I started servicing this piano, it had a dehumidifier rod without a humidistat installed in the bottom, and who knows how many years it had been operating.</div> <div> </div> <div>Wesley Hardman, RPT</div> <div>Scottsboro, Alabama</div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>