Yes. I've treated many uprights with bushings, on their feet with fine results. Do I know that CA is getting to the block? No. Do I care? No. If the torque is higher, and the piano holds a tuning, we've been successful. It's a band-aid repair, remember. We're just buying time till we can afford/justify a new pin block. William R. Monroe On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Zeno Wood <zeno.wood at gmail.com> wrote: > William, > > Have you found that it's possible to get CA into a pinblock with plate bushings without tilting? > > Thanks, > Zeno Wood > > > ---------------------------- > I'm with Tom. CA will "wick in" to the wood itself easily. Getting into > > the seam between the Tuning Pin and Pin Block is child's play. Treat it > now, see how it holds, and perhaps do it again in a few months. Use a thin > hypo and if it's an upright, don't bother tipping. It gets in easily > > enough, and I find that this method keeps you from applying too much CA. > Stop applying before it starts running down the plate. ;-] > > William R. Monroe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100824/cfb8e0f0/attachment.htm>
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