Pinblocks and o/s pins

[Stephen Airy]

I'm planning on restringing my piano soon, and I don't plan to pull the
plate.  The pins probably have around 40-70 inch-pounds of torque on
them.  Would you all recommend 3/0 or 4/0 pins, and/or should I plug
and drill, or how should I do it?  I don't want the tuning pins to be
extremely tight, but I want it to stay in tune longer than a few hours
to a couple days to a week.  :)
I should also mention that the bass bridge is cracked along the
speaking side of the lowest several bichord unisons.  An RPT friend
told me I should work some superglue in the crack (that in some places
is maybe half the width of the bridge pins) and clamp it.  What would
you say I should do?

On Mon, 13 May 2002 00:56:15 -0400, "Bill Ballard"
<yardbird@pop.vermontel.net> said:
> At 11:16 PM -0400 5/12/02, HazenBannister@cs.com wrote:
> >  That was my guess,but most of the older uprights I was thinking 
> >of,would not be worth the trouble to pull the plate.If I went to 
> >that trouble,I would just put in a new block,which most customers 
> >with budget pianos, would not spend that kind of money,on a two - 
> >three hundred dollar piano.
> >Hazen Bannister
> 
> Not all pianos are going to get serious work done on then, which more 
> often than not begins with removing the plate.
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
> "Filing the bridgepins sure puts a sparkle on the restringing, but is 
> best done before the plate is re-installed"
>      ...........recent shop journal entry
> +++++++++++++++++++++
> 

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