I should clarify. It's a band-aid repair, to be sure, but often a piano remains tunable for many, many years after, so long-term results are possible. WRM On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:46 PM, William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> wrote: > 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/20100824/43fa0e72/attachment.htm>
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