[pianotech] help please

[Mike Spalding]

How is it better?  Let me count the ways

1.  I would have had to take the piano off the stage truck.

2.  Then I would have had to empty the DamppChaser tank.

3.  Then, after the job was done, I would have had to reverse steps 1 and 2.

4.  If any pins failed to get tight enough, I would have had to repeat 
steps 1, 2, and 3.

5.  With the CA mostly at the bottom of the pin, I predict that tuning 
would be more difficult due to pin windup.

YMMV

Mike

On 11/10/2011 8:53 PM, Greg Newell wrote:
> I'm confused here. It looks like you've drilled every one. How is that
> somehow better or less time consuming than just flipping the piano over with
> action removed and applying CA from the underside of the block? It seems to
> me like a better way to apply too since you're putting the CA directly onto
> the pin/block contact with little chance of gluing the block to the plate as
> was described in a thread a bit ago.
>
> Greg Newell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Mike Spalding
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:06 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] help please
>
> Les,
>
> I also posted on this earlier this year. I've only done it once, on a grand,
> but if I had a vertical candidate, I would tip it and use the identical
> procedure. The photo shows my dremel tool with a 1/16 drill bit. I managed
> to do the entire piano with the one bit. Joe is absolutely correct about
> feeling the bit enter the gap between the bottom of the bushing and
> pinblock. Getting the CA to the bottom of the hole was accomplished by
> running it down a piece of piano wire. Stick the wire in the hole, hold the
> bottle nozzle against the wire and give it a little squeeze, and there it
> is.
>
> good luck
>
> Mike
>
> On 11/10/2011 7:41 AM, Leslie Bartlett wrote:
>> This is second attempt for a decent toooner, but limited repair-er to
>> help me with something I think I saw on this list in short form, but
>> which I need better explained. Evidently on some verticals, a, or some
>> techs drill holes through tuning pin bushings, down to pin block, then
>> use super glue to send down the hole which then gets into the
>> pinblock. I'm inexperienced, and a bit nervous about trying such
>> without a bit more information about how they accomplish it, and
>> experienced results. Would someone who does this please reply- off
>> list probably good as I don't want to waste other folks' time.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Les Bartlett
>>
>> l-bartlett at sbcglobal.net
>>
>