Pinblock CA after Dope?

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

I was in an adjacent dry area of NM when this occurred.  The house in 
question had adequate humidity, several aquariums nearby and 
evaporative cooling.  There was too little room to tilt the "upright" 
grand so I chose to trickle the CA in.  I have never had glycerin 
work for me, perhaps the subjects were all too far gone.

Andrew Anderson

At 08:16 PM 2/5/2006, you wrote:
>Andrew,
>
>You're in a dry part of Texas, right?  I was surprised a while back 
>to see Guy Nichols post that good ol' glycerin pinblock dope worked 
>better for him in his dry environment than CA (because CA needs 
>moisture in the wood to cure it).  Have you tried it?
>
>I saved his post because I'll be setting up shop in Albuquerque when 
>I graduate this spring.
>
>--Cy--
>
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>
>>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
>
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