<html> <body> Yes, and be sure you keep a flashlight in your tool kit in case you ever have to remove the fallboard and look inside to make a regulation adjustment! :-) Avery At 12:35 PM 11/10/04, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">*GRIN* Have you checked out the Millenium III action with all carbon parts? If I wasn't a technician, I swear I could sell Kawais. -ilex <dl> <dd>-----Original Message----- <dd>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</a>]On Behalf Of Cy Shuster <dd>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 9:03 AM <dd>To: Pianotech <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender <dd>One of them wouldn't grip at first, so probably the reverse is true, too (Titebond preventing CA from gripping).  I used a different bottle of CA, and that seemed to help, but the first bottle worked on the others.  I guess I should have scraped both wood surfaces first; obviously there was some glue there before (it looked bare, though). <dd>  <dd>Those Kawai "black jacks" are looking better all the time... <dd>  <dd>--Cy-- <dl> <dd>----- Original Message ----- <dd>From: <a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</a> <dd>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</a> <dd>Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:23 AM <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender <dd>"...wouldn't have a problem with a drop of CA to all the rest to help solidify them for the time being..." <dd>  <dd>Yeah, as long as the anticipated follow-up work was jack replacement, rather than gluing with Titebond. I should think that application of CA to the mating wood surfaces would pretty much ruin a good Titebond glue surface. <dd>  <dd>Terry Farrell <dl> <dd>----- Original Message ----- <dd>From: <a href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">David Ilvedson</a> <dd>To: <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a> <dd>Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:04 PM <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender <dd>I agree, a little titebond applied with a toothpick or such and you have a good repair.  I wouldn't have a problem with a drop of CA to all the rest to help solidify them for the time being... <dd>  <dd>David I. <dd>  <dd>----- Original message ----------------------------------------> <dd>From: Joe Garrett <<a href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">joegarrett@earthlink.net</a>> <dd>To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>> <dd>Received: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:54:28 -0800 <dd>Subject: Re: Unglued grand jack tender <dd>Cy asked: " why are those = <dd>jacks made in two pieces to begin with?  Is it just so they can fail in = <dd>a repairable way if regulation is off (too much aftertouch)?" <dd>  <dd>Cy, <dd>Being the maker of obsolete action parts, I can say the Jack is the most difficult item to make. (just close your eyes and try to imagine how that configuration is cut!) It's made that way, because it's better, IMO <dd>BTW, I hope you are prepared to replace those jacks, as in fairly soon, as CA doesn't last very well in Stress applications. Please don't do that anymore. I don't care if it is in some PTG manual.....it's a bad way to repair something like that! Especially in a high end piano! Yikes! <dd><G> <dd>Best Regards, <dd>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. <dd>Captain, Tool Police <dd>Squares R I </dl> </dl> </dl></blockquote></body> </html>