Tuning pins and soap???

[Les Smith]

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>         This is purely an experimental idea.  I do not have the means to
> test it so I throw it out to you.  Someone may have the means.
>         I was tuning a piano. A fellow and I were talking about loose
> tuning pins.  He said, "Why don't you take the pin out and rub it on a bar
> of soap real good and reinsert it into the pinblock?"  He said that the
> carpenter uses this method with screws and that at first the soap will
> lubricate the insertion of the screw into the wood.  Then after a period of
> time the soap changes in character as it dries and acts as a lock tight and
> prevents the screw from backing out on it's own.  It increases the friction
> it takes to remove the screw.  Try this on your test piano!
>
> Is this far fetched?  Probably.
> Will it work?  Only one of you guys with the ability to experiment would be
> able to tell me.  I think that it is worthy of investigation.
>
> Does anyone know the answer?
>
> Steve Haasch

Wait a minute, Steve. Why do you want us to try out this idea on OUR
pianos first? Since it's YOUR idea, don't you think it would be better
to try it out on YOUR piano and let us all know how it works? I do. :)

Les Smith
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