Michael Magness wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:13 AM, David Ilvedson <ilvey at sbcglobal.net > <mailto:ilvey at sbcglobal.net>> wrote: > > That's when I first heard about CA...at some convention a long time > ago. Probably a good person to be doing business with... > > David Ilvedson, RPT > Pacifica, CA 94044 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Original message > From: "J Patrick Draine" > To: pianotech at ptg.org <mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> > Received: 3/26/2009 10:21:59 AM > > Subject: Re: [pianotech] CA glue vs. PinTite or Garfield's > > Don, > Dryburgh started pitching CA glue approximately (at least?) 10 years > before you heralded its use on pianotech. He'd give classes (at > Northeast Regionals) extolling its virtues in a wide range of > repairs (hammer shanks! veneer! etc etc.) and then throw in "Hey I > even used it on totally torqueless tuning pin on this wretched > Junker Upright, and it held!!" Now, at that point he wasn't > recommending CA as a treatment for an entire pinblock -- there were > lots of skeptics in the classroom back then -- but, as far as I > remember, that was the starting point for its usage as a "pin block > treatment." > Patrick Draine > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Don <pianotuna at accesscomm.ca > <mailto:pianotuna at accesscomm.ca>> wrote: > > Hi Mike, > > With respect, CA glue treatment for pin blocks has been "around" > since > 1996. I don't think that makes it "relatively new". I know this > because I > was the first person to post in public about it. > > > > > Thanks to all, > I again find the intent of my remarks taken to an almost absurd level. > > The subject at hand was the treatment of pinblocks, piano pinblocks. > > I have some friends who work for a sign company and they assure me they > have never used pinblock material for signmaking. > > My wife is a nurse trained in surgical settings and she assures me she > has never seen anything resembling a pinblock in any portion of the > human body, that belonged there at least. > I received my first Schaff, Hale, Apsco and Ford catalogs in 1969 and > they all offered either Lunsfords, Pintite or both, no CA. > > I checked and the patent date for Lunsfords was 1964. > > I don't recall the exact year I first saw CA offered in any of those > catalogs nor do they promote it for pinblock treatment in their current > issues. > > Most importantly I was speaking from MY perspective, when I first became > aware of it's use for treatment of pinblocks. > > I was simply attempting to voice my opinion(still America, right?) that > CA MIGHT not be the answer for every case. IMHO there might be the > occasion when PinTite was the more favorable choice, for pinblocks! > > Not signs, closing surgical wounds, gluing construction workers helmets > to I-beams or the myriad other uses it's been put to. > > I have old uprights that I treated with PinTite 20 or more years ago > that are still going, still tunable, that would be in the landfill > otherwise. I don't have that history or provenance with CA. > > Mike > -- Mike, If I remember tonight, after I do the rest of the tunings for contest, I'll cut up the Yam C7 pinblock I just replaced. It had been well blackened with _something_ before it arrived here, (plate and keys) and I'd kept it almost tunable for years with occasional spot applications of CA. I hope to be able to see amount of penetration of both types of living-better-through-chemistry and bring segments to the meeting tomorrow. See you there. Same time; same place. -- Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT - Keyboard Technician Luther College, 700 College Dr., Decorah, Iowa 52101-1045 1-(563)-387-1204 // Fax 1-(563)-387-1076
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