<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Okay, so what you are saying is that most tuning pins don't turn on their own under the pull of the string tension, but that somehow they lack the "real stability of tuning"? IMHO, either the pin turns on it's own or it doesn't. How does your experience differ?<div><br></div><div>FWIW, yes, some tuning pins have less torque than I would like, but that doesn't mean that they spin on their own.....<br><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 22, 2012, at 8:00 PM, David Boyce wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font face="Arial"> <blockquote type="cite">If the tuning pins are only "a little loose" - a measured numerical value or at least an estimate would sure help - why would you even consider treating the pins with CA? I'm assuming that "a little loose" is not "too loose". What does "a little loose" mean?<br> <br> Is it like being a little bit pregnant?<br> <br> Terry Farrell</blockquote> Haha, by "a little loose", I mean not as tight as I'd like them to be for real stability of tuning.  Not that different, perhaps, from some other equally old pianos: One or two pins suddenly slipping flat when I put the lever on them, solved, happily, by punching them further in to the pinblock.  <br> <br> I asked about CA because I was thinking, IF the looseness has been caused by the WD40 rather than just the age of the pinblock, and IF it gets worse, would CA treatment work, or would the WD40 prevent it from working?<br> <br> I have never been even the tiniest bit pregant, I am sure of it.<br> <br> David.<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.davidboyce.co.uk/">www.davidboyce.co.uk</a><br> </font> </div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>