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<FONT COLOR="#660000">Dear Bill S,</FONT>
<P><FONT COLOR="#660000">I think you should use the thin CA glue. Depending
on the condition, I would suggest you get 2 x 2ounces bottle. Usually one
is enough, but I find that you might want to repeat the procedure until
you get the desired result. It has worked for me. Just do one pass, test
the pins after 5 or so minutes, if not tight enough, do another pass. I've
done over 4 passes on a certain piano but the result was worth it. I prefer
the feeling of CA doped blocks compared to the garfield ones.</FONT>
<P><FONT COLOR="#660000">Hope this helps,</FONT>
<P><FONT COLOR="#660000">Marcel Carey, RPT</FONT>
<P>BSimon1234 wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>THE PIANO:
<BR>A donated no name baby grand, years ago extremely heavily doped with
<BR>Garfield's ( pools of brown sticky stuff that has hardened), - no pin
<BR>bushings, most pins would need vast improvement to come up to zero
pin torque.
<BR>( You know, - they jump 5 notes flat when you release the tuning hammer)
<P>THE SITUATION:
<BR>Little old ladies club, their big yearly scholarship fundraising event
is in 5
<BR>days with a "singing group" coming in do a program, "PLEASE - PLEASE,
do what
<BR>you can." My work basically pro-bono. (I occasionally do some.)
<P>THE PLAN:
<BR>A great piano to experiment with! What's to lose? I intend to
try putting CA
<BR>glue (thin- medium- thick ?) into the pin wells where the bushings
should have
<BR>been, letting it set up and then tuning. The piano was previously
tapped
<BR>about as far as it can go. I will remove the action and shield the
key bed,
<BR>etc. It would be very difficult to turn this piano over to treat
the bottom
<BR>of the pinblock due to its location and my feeble back.
<P>REQUESTING YOUR HELP:
<BR>I wish I knew this was coming up, for I would try water thin epoxy,
but no
<BR>time to get that now. I would like to know how thick the CA should
be, how
<BR>many grams or ounces might be needed, waiting times, - ANYTHING
that would
<BR>help. Also, IS THIS LIKELY TO WORK? - I will report to the list,
because if
<BR>CA works in this piano it should work anywhere. Is the CA likely to
work as
<BR>well as an epoxy treatment? For this much CA glue the fumes will be
awesome.
<BR>Anything to do there besides ventilation? Should I drop a drop of water
into
<BR>the holes after the CA glue? - What about accelerators?
<P>Please feel free to e-mail me directly, but I will be anxiously watching
the
<BR>list. If it doesn't work right away I would still have time to
burn down the
<BR>building and save the ladies from grievous embarrassment.
<P>Thanks,
<BR>Bill Simon
<BR>Phoenix</BLOCKQUOTE>
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