ca glue

[Avery Todd]

Don't forget to put a paper (or something) under the pin block, on top of
the flanges. Just in case! :-)

Avery

At 05:44 PM 08/31/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi Patrich,
>You reminded me, the pins that did not hold were 0 torque. The piano was one
>of my first treatments. Now usually I will treat the piano and mop up the
>excess with paper towel. This usually takes long enough for the glue to set
>enough to tune.
>Then a pitch raise is done ignoring any pin that still does not hold
>followed by a second treatment of the still loose pins. At this point I will
>use a drop of activator on the end of a pincil to activate the glue at the
>exact spot needed then fine tune.
>Blocks that are slightly loose one trip through.
>Very loose twice through watching that the glue travels arround the pin hole
>to the far side with NO activator.
>Mop and tune and retreat as necessary.
>Joe Goss
>imatunr@srvinet.com
>www.mothergoosetools.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J Patrick Draine" <draine@comcast.net>
>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2003 5:20 PM
>Subject: Re: ca glue
>
>
> >
> > On Sunday, August 31, 2003, at 02:54  PM, Tom Driscoll wrote:
> > > Gentlemen,
> > > Why 7 days? The thin stuff disappears in a few seconds and sets
> > > up rather quickly even without the accelerator. In my opinion an hour
> > > or
> > > so is plenty of time if you're using the thin viscosity CA.
> > > Tom Driscoll
> >
> > True Tom,
> > But it sounds to me like he used *quite a bit* of CA (he had 8 oz.) and
> > had pools of it at the base of the tuning pins (or so I visualize the
> > scenario). I realize some folks prefer to "use a lot" but I seldom use
> > as much as one small bottle. Then again, I seldom treat zero torque
> > pinblocks.
> > Patrick D
> >
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