This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Great trick for tensioning the cloth Isaac! I am using one of these new portable steam cleaners (Wal-mart) that is about the size of a kettle, but has a nozzle with a trigger on it. Sorry I don't know the name of this one, but the people who make the "SHARK" vacuum (Germany) make a very nice unit and so does Eureka. IT puts out quit a big burst of steam, more than the travel steamer. BTW, I was using this to "clean" damper felt, not to remove it. Have tried it for removing dampers, but soaking is still faster and best, IMHO. Mark Cramer, Brandon University -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Isaac sur Noos Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 5:04 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: RE: amazing, but true Mark, What did you use to steam ? I have a little travel vapor dispenser (for the clothes) that send a little steam . Is it enough ? About taking the grand dampers to the shower, my method is to put them around a kettle of boiling water , and the soup is very fast to be done. Only a few at once ( 8 dampers), but they are off in 20 min, and I avoid the water marks on the wood (very clean wood after that) Adding the last trick to glue new leather /new action clown where they need to be tense (backchecks, whippen heel, rollers, use a drop of water on it before gluing the last side, so you can tense them easily, when dry the tension is higher, so don't overdo it. old trick again ... Greetings . Isaac Isaac OLEG Entretien et réparation de pianos. PianoTech 17 rue de Choisy 94400 VITRY sur SEINE FRANCE tel : 033 01 47 18 06 98 fax : 033 01 47 18 06 90 cell: 06 60 42 58 77 -----Message d'origine----- De : caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de Mark Cramer Envoyé : dimanche 20 juillet 2003 19:51 À : College and University Technicians Objet : RE: amazing, but true I recently 'steam-cleaned' a set on a vertical action Wim. The main objective was to remove the impaction from bass-string windings so they would seat well on new strings. Worked just fine! Mark Cramer, Brandon University -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Wimblees@aol.com Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:14 AM To: caut@ptg.org Subject: amazing, but true I have been led to believe, as I am sure you are too, that damper felts will harden when they get wet. I just restrung a 30 year old B, and was going to replace the damper felts. I took the dampers home and gave them a shower. (I soak them in the shower with hot water. It loosens the glue so the felts drop off easily). The next morning I got sidelined, and it wasn't until later in the next I had time to take the felts off. By this time, however, the glue had hardened again, and I had to cut the felts off with a knife. I soon realized that I forgot that I had replaced these dampers about a year and half ago. So they were virtually brand new. But when I touched the felt, they all seemed very soft. I had only removed the felt off the last 6 dampers, so I thought, what the hell, lets try putting them on the piano, and see how they work. I did, and they are fine. None of them are hard. So my conclusion is that new felts can get wet, and still work. You learn something new every day. Amazing, but true. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/97/3a/a9/60/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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