I'll elaborate a little more. It was an upright and I trickled the CA in with a hypodermic syringe while upright. It kept soaking it up but with remonstrances against overdoing it fresh on my memory I figured a "lite" treatment would be fine. It was, for the first four tunings. I had to crack the pins loose to tune them the first time. By the fourth time many were loose again and I broke out the CA glue. It would not take-in to the wood. Tilting the piano may have helped the second time around. My philosophy now is: protect the floor or action and give it as much as it will drink. The glue's cheap and the time involved is not so long. YMMV, Andrew Anderson At 02:58 PM 2/5/2006, you wrote: >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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >_______________________________________________ >Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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