Overnight Bridge Repair

[Carl Meyer]

Bill, I second the suggestions of Joe.  I will make a couple of suggestions.  

Warm the bridge and pins with a hair dryer to enhance the wicking of the ca glue.  Keep a few cotton swabs handy to suck up any excess if you get clumsy.  Don't worry about gluing the string to the pin.  Here's one time I'd let the tension down a little before bringing it up.  The string and the pin are much stronger than the glue so how could that break anything?  

Ca glue sets up fast and very hard.  That's a plus for you.  I just yesterday got a bridge ready for restringing.  I warmed the bridge, applied thin epoxy and continued the hair dryer to allow the epoxy to penetrate and then used a bristle brush to spread the epoxy over the bridge and the notches and kept brushing till there was no more to clean up.  I now have the pins solidified,  the bridge coated, and the piano ready to string.  I used thin epoxy that has a slow cure rate (liquid wood)  I was concerned that the left over was not as hard as I thought it should be but I guess it takes several days for epoxy to reach full cure.  There are so many variables with epoxy.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@pop.vermontel.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Overnight Bridge Repair


> At 12:06 PM -0600 7/21/02, Joe And Penny Goss wrote:
> >The product that I recommended was CA thinnest glue. Sorry if you
> >misunderstood. Hope it is not too late <G>
> 
> I've got a shot at this on Monday evening. I'll do the CA on a trial 
> note and check back in an hour. (I'm tuning this and a second piano 
> on that stage Mon evening).
> 
> Many thanks to all for their clear instructions.
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
> "There are fifty ways to screw up on this job. If you can think of 
> twenty of them, you're a genius......and you aint no genius"
>      ...........Mickey Rourke to William Hurt, in "Body Heat", discussing arson.
> +++++++++++++++++++++
>