[CAUT] install bridge pins?

[Jim Busby]

Hi Mark,

This is how I've done it for three years now and I REALLY like it. The only thing I might go back to is Dag. (Actually not Dag. I use black stove polish.) No. Not for function. I just like the stark looks. (Sorry R.) I've been doing laminated caps too. The caps are a real improvement. Got to get me a Nossaman notcher though. It's hell on my chisels! You've got to keep them razor sharp and have good technique or the notches look like beaver gnawings.

Jim Busby

From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Mark Cramer
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 2:34 PM
To: CAUT
Subject: [CAUT] install bridge pins?

A few years ago I ran out of good reasons not to pin a new bridge-cap with the same epoxy method (Mr. Bill's) we've been using to re-pin original caps with for over a decade.

More recently, I've tried to add some of the heresy gleaned from this list (you know who you are ;>) into my procedure, as follows:

1.) Drilling the holes to extra depth.

2.) Installing rounded-pins to final height, rather than the traditional filing method.

3.) Coating the surface with McLube rather than Dag (graphite).

Any other suggestions...?

(No we don't have a handy source of Titanium bridge pins or a hydraulic pin-press)

The bridges I've already done this way sound nice and clean, and render well... but then they all do, for the first year anyhow. ;>)

Best regards,
Mark Cramer, RPT
Brandon University






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