<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Bridge repair (was: Pinblock glassing)</title></head><body> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>>Marine-Tex...<i>It's great stuff for rebuilding split bridge surfaces too.</i></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><i>></i>Would you care to elaborate?  I have a customer with a bass bridge</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>that is just starting to show cracks at the pins, no budget for  replacement.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">Something like that, I'd try to arrest the development of the cracks with CA</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">or a thin, liquid epoxy.</font></div> <div><br></div> <div>The bridge repair I mentioned in a previous post was the top half octave's front pins.</div> <div>The pins drifted to perpendicular and left quite a chasm. I pulled the pins, chipped out</div> <div>the loose material and forced-filled the gully (heating bridge and epoxy). Once the epoxy</div> <div>cured, I dressed the surface, drilled for new pins, renotched and replaced the old strings.</div> <div><br></div> <div>My 2 pound pin driving sledge received a large chip in the handle. I filled and sanded</div> <div>and it's still solid after 20 years. I've even used it to patch divots in the concrete floor (a good</div> <div>use of excess epoxy). My bench top is riddled with spot-fills in slices, dents, chips and holes.</div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>