In a message dated 2/17/02 9:17:06 AM, Wimblees@AOL.COM writes: << Did you shore up the bottom of the pin block before applying the CA glue? Are you shoring up the pin block when you drive the pins. >> Didn't shore up bottom before applying glue, but I did remove the action and place newspaper underneath. I read on the list recently that someone uses an entire bottle of thin viscosity CA glue on a pin block. Well, no more than a couple of drops could be use on each pin, due to the fact that it would create a puddle around the pin, and not descend down into the hole. So, needless to say, none dripped down through the block to the newspaper below. When I removed the pins, there was a little dam, or wall, of CA glue protruding above the plate. It seemed like very little went down into the block. So I wonder if the previous glue treatments really could form a block which is holding the pins up. I used a car jack with a 2x4 on top of it to shore up the pinblock when I hammered the pins in. (I ordered a pinblock jack from APSCO but they messed up entire order, and it didn't get sent. See next post.) Tom Sivak
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