more trouble than it's worth (was tune, chip with oversized pins?)

[Dean May]

You don't have to go all new pin block either. Don't forget (maybe you
didn't already know) that Webb Phillips carries the pin block plugs that
work fabulous- http://www.alliedpiano.com/pinblock.htm . I'll probably never
replace another glued and mortised in place pin block. These plugs make it
too easy. 

 

Dean

Dean May             cell 812.239.3359 

PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272 

Terre Haute IN  47802

 

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Ilvedson
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:03 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: RE: more trouble than it's worth (was tune, chip with oversized
pins?)

 

I would re-iterate the CA option.   You can always tell the customer you are
working by hour.   Explain that many technicians have had good results with
CA glue on pianos that might not be worth rebuilding (you have to think
carefully about how you word it..;-]) .   Let her/him know that their piano
needs a pinblock.   Don't make their problem yours.   A new pinblock and
restringing is the best way to deal with their problems, but you have those
other two options.  CA for a couple of hours of work or Repinning with old
strings for quite few more hours of work.   The repinning is, of course, a
better option on a good quality piano.   We still don't know the brand?   If
you decide to repin, you don't need to remove the dampers.   Just move the
upstop rail as high as possible and block up the tray.   The wire you remove
from the old pin will just sit there while you insert another pin.   I'm
wondering whether you could pound the new pin through the coil into the
block?   Worth a try...hopefully you would only be going up one size?   

CA?   Remove the action

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA 94044

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Original message
From: "daniel carlton"  
To: "pianotech mailing list"  
Received: 3/24/2008 11:27:57 AM
Subject: more trouble than it's worth (was tune, chip with oversized pins?)

hi guys 

thanks for the input.

 

I don't get the question exactly.  Are you replacing tuning pins without
restringing?  The whole set?

 

yes, the whole set, without restringing.

 

...damper adjustments. etc. Speaking of which, you should remove the dampers
when repinning, especially in the bass. 

 

i didn't want to get into dampers. i still at the point where i don't like
them. uh but i guess if i'm to do the job i have no choice. at this point,
the owner might as well replace the block. i guess she had it "rebuilt"
20-30 years ago. she called it rebuilt, but it might have just been a
refurbish without a new block because the pins are so loose. 

 

these are the jobs that are frustrating to me, because it's always "well if
you're going to do this, you might as well do that, and if you're going to
do that, then you might as well do this." i think it's the stress of not
knowing how much to estimate.

 

anyway...

 

daniel

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