Tom, that's quite a story! Courage, to break a tuning pin seized with CA glue, and then to swab the cleaned out hole with more CA glue. Can you tell me how much CA you used the first time around? Did you soak the area? I'll remember not to use CA where those bronze bushings have been used. Luckily I hardly ever find them. Susan At 07:14 PM 9/13/2003 -0400, you wrote: >List, > > Recent successful application of thin CA to a nondescript 5 > stencil grand-. During tuning a few months later a tuning pin broke at > the becket. > > I haven t had a tuning pin break on me since my Baldwin > dealer days in the 70 s and it is a weird sensation when your lever feels > like silly putty right before the pin breaks. > > This pin was FROZEN. I tried the schaff tuning pin extractor > with no luck. It just chewed up the pin. Next I tried drilling into the > pin for an Easyout screw extractor and broke the drill inside the pin. > Nice! Final and successful attempt was to drill a small hole in my pin > block support, locate the hole under the pin and drive the remaining mess > through the block with a drift punch and a 2lb sledge. I chased the hole > with a drill bit to clean it up, swabbed the hole w/CA and used a 3/0 > tuning pin. The pin is now a bit jumpy, but tight and tunable > > The difference on this pin was that a bronze tuning pin > bushing had been used and had really locked things up when I applied the CA. > >That s my theory anyway unless the pin was ready to break for another reason. > > Just another thing to look out for before the next candidate > comes my way. > > Tom Driscoll > > > > P.S. I felt like one of those forensic medical examiners on > TV pulling a slug out of a corpse!
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