CA and Bridge Pins

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Richard,
I like very much your idea of using a wire brush to clean off the excess
glue.
To somewhat avoid this I tip the piano to 45% which sort of puts the bridge
notch at a quasi level. Having the piano up to pitch the glue is not drawn
up into the speaking length after a pitch raise.
I do feel that there might be an advantage to having the piano at pitch so
that the loose pin will have a larger point of entry for the glue and also
CA glue is not sheer resistant like epoxy.
I have been considering changing to epoxy for smell reasons but as the epoxy
will not do the wicking for tuning pins and the CA is already in hand
perhaps the investment in a good mask for breathing will do.
Joe Goss

> The point of my origional posting was really whether or not there was
anything
> to be gained by leaving the string tension up so as to keep sideways
pressure on
> the pins while applying this. The thought struck me that it might be
benificial
> to soak as much of this CA into the space created by this tension.
>
> Course I dont know whether this is nonsense or not... probably one of
those
> unknowables.. but it was no problem to get rid of any excess that worked
its way
> under the strings and down the notch, and the result was simply
astounding. This
> old Bechstein was nearly impossible to tune because of all the falsness. I
had
> tried reshaping the hammers earlier with virtually no change despite very
worn
> hammer felt. Now its about as clean as a whistle.. a bit of falsness here
and
> there probably related to aggraffees... maybe something else cant be sure
yet.
> No one would touch this thing up to a week ago.. now its in full use by
students
> and teachers and everyone is pleased pink at the "new grand" at the
school.
>