Don, I don't dispute it can happen, but I've treated many pinblocks some had been doped, some not (probably most had been), and never had an experience of that nature. As I said before, my experience has been that typically CA makes an instrument tunable again, sometimes makes pins actually tight again, but not in the "Brand-New Baldwin" category. Regards, William R. Monroe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <pianotuna@accesscomm.ca> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:31 AM Subject: Re: good price for CA > Hi William, > > Trust me--if the pin block has been doped before and just 2 oz of CA glue > is used the pins sometimes (not always) become *super* tight. They can > shear off. So take along your tuning pin punch > > At 11:17 PM 26/01/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >David, > >Truly can't imaging CA actually causing a pin to break. I don't question > >the experience, only the mechanism. Probably a bad pin, now it's actually > >tight again, and - SNAP!! I would not blame the CA. Typically CA makes an > >instrument tunable again, sometimes makes pins actually tight again, but not > >in the "Brand-New Baldwin" category. > > > >Regards, > >William R. Monroe > > Regards, > Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T. > Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat > > mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/ > > 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7 > 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >
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