<div style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; "> </div> <pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; "><tt> Yep, and you're welcome. I make a composite multilam block with a 9mm Delignit cap. I'm the guy who introduced y'all to them, </tt></pre><pre><tt>Well not exactly. I saw this idea on the Yamaha blocks first. But you did motivate me to go with it so...thanksA Great idea!</tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt> I'd go with a smaller hole like you did, before I'd put in a longer pin. Ron N</tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt> </tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt>good to know</tt></pre><pre style="font-size: 9pt; "><tt>Dale</tt></pre> <div style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; clear: both; ">Dale Erwin R.P.T. Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc. Mason & Hamlin/Steinway/U.S. pianos www.Erwinspiano.com Phone: 209-577-8397 <tt><tt>     </tt></tt> </div> <div style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica; ">-----Original Message----- From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 4:27 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Blocks <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_3da8ac36-c1fa-40c3-991d-1c5a47b8eece" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On 10/22/2012 4:19 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > Dave/ Ron > As many know we make a quarter sawn maple block with a 5 mm > delignit top cap. Yep, and you're welcome. I make a composite multilam block with a 9mm Delignit cap. I'm the guy who introduced y'all to them, but my testing has convinced me that there's no difference worthy of the price between a high dollar plank and the cheap rotary cut supply house product with the same high quality cap. It's the cap that does most of the work, and I find it hard to put in an expensive quarter sawn block unless it's doing something wonderful while it's in there. >Trix always put 4 coils on the pins in the top treble > section as per original for the reasons of the pin depth issue stated > below. I use about 2-1/2 coils throughout, but my low bass core wire is typically 0.051" rather than 0.064", so the bass coils don't stack as deep. I don't find enough difference in torque from end to end double drilling, which I also introduced y'all to, to bother with different drill sizes. But it's whatever works to the satisfaction of all concerned that counts, whatever it takes to get there. > Since the wire is thicker in the bass and makes for a taller coil the > other solution is insert a longer pin. Any thoughts on that? seems to me > 6 one way and 1/2 dozen the other.Dunno I sure wouldn't. One thing I for sure don't want in a piano is a long pin that's tight at the bottom. That's the whole point of the composite block with the 2-3/8" Denro pins that I use. I'd go with a smaller hole like you did, before I'd put in a longer pin. Ron N </tt></pre> </div>  </div>