[CAUT] bridge cap sanding

[Jeff Farris]

>>I like the idea behind epoxying the pins - no pin upward movement
>
>If you don't epoxy or CA them in, you'll most likely have the same 
>false beats you had before you restrung it, because you didn't fix 
>the original problem. If you do epoxy them in, you won't because you 
>did. The bridge cap will still move the strings up and *down* the 
>string some, but not quite as much as before. Strings don't stay up 
>bridge pins.
>
>>- but is there no concern with removing them in the future?
>
>They'll still pull out if you need to.
>
>>Otherwise, I guess you'd have to seat the bridge pins every tuning, huh?
>>Jeff F
>
>No, because seating strings doesn't fix anything. The strings aren't 
>up the pins.
>Ron N



No, I actually meant the pins, not the strings, but I guess them, 
too. Anyway, I would like to CA glue them in place. Would you drive 
them in first and then add the glue (trying to not make a mess) or 
what? And what thickness.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Jeff Farris
Piano Technician
School of Music
UT Austin
mailto; jfarris at mail.utexas.edu
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