We're not talking CA or epoxy here. That would be just plain mean. Thread lock comes in a reversible form and may well serve as a prophylactic against any potential rattling. I figure the pressure of the strings pulling up on the agraffe serves as another form of thread tightener. Jude Reveley, RPT Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC Lowell, Massachusetts (978) 323-4545 ----- Original Message ----- From: Porritt, David To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Managing agraffes was Increasing bridge height If you use “thread lock” on the agraffes and one needs to be replaced you will probably be cursed quite thoroughly at some point. Don’t leave your name in the piano anywhere. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090325/f7d88c45/attachment.html>
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