C/A glue question

[Willem Blees]

Before going to the trouble of turning the piano upside down, why don't you remove the action, shore up the bottom of the pin block with a piece of plywood, remove the pin, and put a little CA glue in the hole. Then pound the pin back in. When you use the plywood, put a piece of felt and a piece of wax paper between the plywood and the pinblock. The felt will make for a snug fit, and only the wax paper will be stuck to the bottom of the pinblock. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net>
To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 4:50 am
Subject: C/A glue question


I recently tried to treat a grand pinblock with C/A glue and very little of the glue penetrated past the plate bushings. Needless to say, I didn't get the usually expected result. Has anyone tried turning a grand upside down and treating the pin block from the bottom? The pin holes come out the bottom so there would be a well into which the C/A glue could be applied. I'm not sure I want to be the first to try it, but If I don't get a response, I probably will be. The customer (a piano teacher of course) can't afford a new pinblock and is just a few years from retirement anyway.?
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Thanks,?
James H. Johnson, RPT?
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