Hi, Don, I haven't yet used CA on tuning pins and, therefore, I'm reluctant to experiment on a customer's piano without having done a few jobs on basket cases that would otherwise be thrown away. I can visualize, on a grand with unbushed tuning pins, that it would be easy to remove the action and drizzle some thin CA down into the holes of the loose pins (at convention, I bought some neat nozzles from Ed Dryburgh that fit onto the caps of the Hot Stuff glues - no more microspaghetti tubing). On a piano with bushed pin holes, though, would that require drilling first? However, it seems to me that you would have to tilt an upright to do anything approaching a neat job and, since I don't normally carry my tilter with me (the heavy, steel kind), I have used the easier methods like driving the pins in further a/o inserting shims. Anyhow, I'd be curious to know how you would deal with an upright that has, say, 6 or 8 loose ones in the low tenor, where the tuning pins are grouped tightly. Tom ps: Carl, I had forgotten about using veneer. Thanks for the reminder. Something to try next time. Don wrote: > > Hi, > > Why not just use CA glue. It is fast and effective. > > At 02:03 PM 7/14/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Tom Cole wrote: > >> I think a good case could be made for using a sleeve. Not the metal > >> kind, which gives a poor feel, but a piece of 150 or 180 grit sandpaper, > >> used with the abrasive side out. > > > >I've never seen a metal sleeve that worked. Sandpaper increases pin > >torque only margainally, in my experience, and doesn't always stay put > >during installation. If a shim really is indicated, I prefer walnut > >veneer about 3/16" wide. Plenty of torque, nice feel. Thank you, Fred > >Drasche. > > > >Carl > > > > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. > "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" > drose@dlcwest.com > http://www.dlcwest.com/~drose/ > 3004 Grant Rd. > REGINA, SK > S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner -- Thomas A. Cole RPT Santa Cruz, CA
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