larger bridge pins

[Isaac OLEG]

Listers, Ron, Del,

I am ready to install new bridge pins (pointed) in an original S&S
bridge (mod S) ,and will use in some places one size thicker (i.e.
2.35 for 2.20)

Too bad but some where not straight and a few holes enlarged too much
when extracting.

My question are :
Do you use to cut the pointed end to avoid delaminating of the bridge.
Is hand drilling (with a handle enough to ream the hole to the good
size ?
How large would do you use to drill ?

I am afraid of splitting something, and I feel that Cyanoacrylates are
may be not lasting enough (they are know to have little resistance to
chock , so vibes may be are not good too)
I will try to avoid epoxy on that one, just to see if something is
different (I know what to listen for).

Thanks for your advice.

Regards.

Isaac OLEG



> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> part de Ron Nossaman
> Envoye : vendredi 22 novembre 2002 16:52
> A : Pianotech
> Objet : Re: S&S D Duplex
>
>
>
> >"Piano factories are very realistic places."
> >
> >Unfortunately the statement above is very true. Rather
> than redesign the
> >entire belly of a piano, you can just add these little
> thingees to the
> >rear duplex and sell just as many pianos - maybe more
> because they are
> >shiny! THAT, is being realistic. It has more to do with
> the accounting,
> >design and marketing departments than with what goes on in
> the noisy part
> >of the factory.
> >
> >Terry Farrell
>
> I forgot to add that be it the technical folks in the
> factory, or the
> individual technician trying to make the thing sound less
> bad, the first
> requirement for an effective and dependable fix is an
> understanding of the
> cause of the problem. Those realistic factory folks and
> most of us techs
> will just try to deal with the symptoms. In the case of the
> company with
> the patent on the duplex scale, the soundboards are still
> being made
> essentially the same way as they were then, with presumably
> the same killer
> octave problems now as then. If anything, the killer
> octaves are probably
> worse now than then because they have since decided to thin
> the panel in
> the treble.
>
> Ron N
>
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