Pinblock CA after Dope?

[Susan Kline]

Marcel, that's an interesting idea.

I wonder if one might figure a way to crack the plate bushings
(since they seem to crack easily anyway) to allow the CA access?

Susan

At 03:45 PM 2/5/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Ah...
>
>I've found pianos with tuning pins thighter in the plate bushings than
>in the block. This is a situation that I saw on a Korean grand of about
>15 years ago. How did I find this out, is when I had to replace a
>string, I wanted to replace the pins since it was loose. Well, the
>bushings came out with the pins, and, as soon as the bushings were out
>of the plate, I could feel the pins very loose in the block. This is why
>CA has not worked for me in SOME situations. Whenever there were no
>plate bushings, it worked all the time.
>
>Marcel Carey, RPT
>Sherbrooke, QC
>
> > -----Message d'origine-----
> > De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> > [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] De la part de Susan Kline
> > Envoyé : 5 février 2006 15:15
> > À : Pianotech List
> > Objet : Re: Pinblock CA after Dope?
> >
> >
> > At 02:01 PM 2/5/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> > >I'll have to disagree with Susan here.  I've gone 'lite' on CA on a
> > >pin-block and after the fourth tuning it needed more.
> > Problem was it
> > >wouldn't accept more.
> > >
> > >Andrew Anderson
> >
> > Well, I'm open to discussion. It needed more, i.e., some pins
> > got loose again?
> >
> > And you put CA on them where they entered the plate, but they
> > stayed loose? What I'm wondering is how a pin can be loose,
> > but not have the room for CA to enter? It gets into such
> > tight cracks usually. People even talk about clamping a wood
> > joint together and THEN adding the CA.
> >
> > Best,
> > Susan
> >
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