Hi Dean, I've used as little as 2 oz and as much as 12 on a piano. I treat from the bass to the treble--and do the wound strings 3 X, so you might call it 2.5 passes with the glue bottle. At 05:29 PM 13/08/2004 -0500, you wrote: >>>>I just finished an old clunker upright where oversize pins had already >been >used. It took 8 ounces of glue. > > >8 ounces is a huge amount of glue. When you say it "took" 8 ounces, do you >mean that is what it took to tighten the pins, or just that the piano took >that much without complaining? I've done lots of these, and 2 ounces is >usually plenty. Occasionally some problem areas needed gone back over 2-3 >times, but that usually amounts to 20-30 pins max. I can go over the whole >piano, hit the bass and tenor section a second time, and still be under 2 >ounces. Once or twice I've had to pull a pin, squirt glue into the hole and >reinsert. Worked marvelously. > >Generally, most of the tuning pins don't need a lot, just some. When you use >8 ounces you are giving most of the pins way more than they need. > >Dean >Dean May cell 812.239.3359 >PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 >Terre Haute IN 47802 > > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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