<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows= -1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER= -LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"> <P><BR>Which also would be a good reminder for to let the owners k= now, before beginning work, of your disclaimer about breaking strings e= tc...they might just get it in there heads that it had something to do = with the CA glue...</P> <P>David I.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5p= x; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Alan Barnard" <TUNE4U@EARTHLINK.NET><BR>To: = Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 9/23/2005 9:33:50 AM<BR>Subj= ect: CA Observation: Food for Thought<BR><BR> <P> <DIV align=left>I tilted and thoroughly soaked an 1890 piano a w= hile back. When I started tuning, the bass strings--which sounded amazi= ngly okay--nevertheless started breaking: POW!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So we agreed to replace the wound strings. In removing the old str= ings, I had to remove the pins because the wire was fused (rusted?) in = the becket holes on many of them.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Anyway, there were crusty clumps of CA (or something) on the old p= ins that I couldn't even chip off without major effort. If this happens= routinely, then the pins are turning with the equivalent of heavy-grit= sandpaper scraping the wood!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Seems like an argument for following Susan's advice and going on t= he light side. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This could use further study, methinks, or at least reporting here= on incidental observations. I won't stop dousing pianos because I've s= een some amazing results in saving otherwise dead blocks, but we may be= fooling ourselves, a little, on the long term results.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>