Hi, You can with some care drip single drops of water thin CA on uprights without tilting. Of course tilting is better--but for one or 2 pins it can work. The CA tends to *draw* into any gap. At 08:54 PM 7/15/98 -0700, you wrote: >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 > > Regards, Don
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