Hello all. After reading posts about happy use of epoxy glue to repair loose bridge pins, I have tried this on a piano which had quite large cracks (2 mm) at the pin holes on the bass bridge (the pins were vertical). It was a disaster. I mixed the two components, heated the pins, let the glue go down into the crack, let rest for a whole day, then put the string back in place, and was happy for about 6 hours, after what, unhappy to see that the pins were back again in their vertical position. Makes me think we don't talk about the same epoxy glue. I used Araldite 2013 (medium fast hardening gap filling for wood and metal), as West System epoxy is hard to find here. Any idea about what went wrong ? Any clue about a product easy to find on the old continent ? Thanks in advance. Stéphane Collin.
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