Using sandpaper on tuning pins.

[Ed Sutton]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Porritt, David" <dporritt at mail.smu.edu>
To: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>; "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:22 PM
Subject: RE: Using sandpaper on tuning pins.


> Ed:
>
> Google translates that as "It's not the heat, it's the humidity"
>
> dave
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> David M. Porritt, RPT
> dporritt at smu.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On
> Behalf Of Ed Sutton
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 4:13 PM
> To: Pianotech List; Don
> Subject: Re: Using sandpaper on tuning pins.
>
> Don-
> Many opinions expressed by many people over many years on the pianotech
> list. Susan Kline in particular led the field in this.
> Supported by my experience. Flooding smells bad, uses lots of expensive
> glue
> and (in my experience) can leak out of the piano and puddle up on the
> floor.
> Plus flooding tends to seal around the pins, making future touch-up
> applications difficult, and may also glue the pinblock to the plate.
> I have found that subtle applications do the job just as well or better.
> If I knew how to do a comprehensive test that would settle this question
>
> forever, I would do it!  Until such time as life becomes objective I
> expect
> there will be many opinions about this. If you want objective evidence
> of
> majority opinion, I suppose we can hire a polling firm to call
> technicians
> around the world. People who have spent more time reading the pianotech
> list
> may have other opinions of technicians' opinions. Let them speak.
> By the way, what does that Latin after your name mean?
> Ed
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don" <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>
> To: "Ed Sutton" <ed440 at mindspring.com>; "Pianotech List"
> <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 2:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Using sandpaper on tuning pins.
>
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>> Hi Ed,
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>> What basis do you have for the "few drops at a time". Data please.
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>> At 01:44 PM 7/20/2008 -0400, you wrote:
>>>  Now most technicians prefer to apply a few drops at  a time, just
>>>enough to get the pin to hold.   Ed Sutton
>> Regards,
>> Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
>> Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat
>>
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