<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Depending on the size of these cracks, yes. If they not huge gapping cracks, lay the instrument on its back side and drip super thin CA carefully into the cracks and down the sides of the pin... dont get any on the string coil... messy. Or you can remove the pins where the cracks are, and fill with epoxy.... let cure and drill out with the same size as the hole was to begin with and repin with one size up.... OR:...you can remove the pin, half fill with epoxy and bang the pin back in... which will force the epoxy as far into the cracks as its liable to go.... let dry a few days and come back to retune. There are more ways... but all are more or less variants of one of these. The main thing is to do a nice clean job of it so the repair looks good... seamless as it were. Cheers RicB CAROLYN BOHN wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE> I have an elderly client with an even more elderly grand piano (about 100 years old).  The piano is in good condition except that the tuning pins in the tenor section are fairly loose, and two pins will not hold the tuning.  When I checked the pinblock, there were, in fact, short cracks coming off the holes for those 2 pins.  I don't want to start piling up big charges for this client, but would like to make the piano playable for her.  I'm wondering if there is a way to epoxy the cracks with the pinblock in place, or some other fix someone knows about.  I've also read some discussion of tightening pins with CA glue and would appreciate advice on how and when to do that, and what thickness of CA glue to use. --- CAROLYN BOHN--- <a href="mailto:cbohn1@mindspring.com">cbohn1@mindspring.com</a>--- EarthLink: It's your Internet. </blockquote>     -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A>  </html>