In a bad mood today Bill ? My hand is raised I hardly relate applying CA glue to a pin and driving it in, to the process you described. Your remarks are demeaning and a touch less than professional. An apology is in order. As long as a procedure works and does no harm then it is a good repair. Just because a slightly different application is theoretically better does not mean it is the only way. I suppose the "correct' way is 'your way'. Lighten up, Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PS, Thanks for the tip on bolting the block to the plate. Although I do not anticipate ever encountering the need for this application, it is good to explore all options :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ At 10:52 PM 3/9/99 -0500, you wrote: >Someone wrote: > ><<If it worked, the technique is right. If it doesn't, you made a mistake. >> > >Would any defenders of this sentiment please raise your hands? ( And, your >voices in support!) > > I see an awful lot of this attitude in posts on this list. Why? It is not >only simple-minded, it is extremely unprofessional. I thought the whole point >to being a “professional” anything, was to do that thing right, to do things >the “correct” way, the “best” way. > >For those with your hands raised, you will love the following quick and easy >repairs I once saw on a grand piano. > >Repair #1 - The repairman tapped all the pins without supporting the pinblock. >“It worked” as a technique because the torque increased and he could now tune >it. > >Repair #2 - (later - same guy, same piano) - The bottom lamination of the >block delaminated, downwards, preventing removal of the action. He pried it >off with a screwdriver! - “It worked!” The action could now come out! The pins >were just high enough not to restrict the action removal. - the technique was >right! > >Repair #3 - (even later - same guy, same piano) - The second bottom >lamination, now the bottom layer, also was delaminating, and the pin torque >was dropping. He drilled small holes through the plate web, around and amongst >the tuning pins, put in about forty #10 machine screws, and a square nut on >the bottom of each. There was clearance for the nuts because the bottom >lamination was gone now. Then he ran in some white glue and partially sucked >the laminations together again by tightening the screws. Then, forty whacks >with a hammer and a sharp cold chisel made the bolts flush with the nuts, and >the action could be removed again! > >When I saw the piano, the pin torque was adequate, it could be tuned. This >genius repairman had saved this piano! “It worked, the technique was right!” > >((((( IMPORTANT NOTE! - For those on this list who believe that all >opinions are equally valid, that the opinions of morons carries the same >weight as that of competent technicians, ----let me state categorically - THE >ABOVE POST IS SARCASTIC! - I strongly recommend that no one ever repair a >piano is such a way. )))))) > >Bill “the end does not always justify the means” Simon >Phoenix >
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