<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>I'm not referring to uprights, Susan: I'm referring to grands that are turned upside down so that the pin holes can be CA'd from within the action cavity. (Which sometimes makes cute little "stalactites" on the pins, that have to be snapped off, once righted again.) If you lived where I live (3rd poorest county in the U.S. --- even poorer than Guatemala -where people tend to spend as little on repairs as possible) you would know why such measures must be considered.)<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">I don't turn over pianos. I did once tilt a terminal old upright from <BR>East Germany so I<BR>could treat its many loose pins with CA, but I later found out I didn't <BR>have to. The<BR>water-thin CA wicks so well that it can be added to upright pins without <BR>tilting. I<BR>just hold a shop towel underneath the pin so none of it drips down.<BR><BR>Susan Kline<BR><BR>Bruce Browning wrote:<BR>> Are you serious?<BR>><BR>><BR>> On 25/08/2012, Euphonious Thumpe <<a ymailto="mailto:lclgcnp@yahoo.com" href="javascript:return">lclgcnp@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> But if you are going to flip the piano over and CA from within, please do<BR>>> any tapping in of tuning pins first, as the CA may form a cap over the pins'<BR>>> bottoms which will cause the block to shatter if tapped later.<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> Euphonious
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