At 12:33 AM 5/30/97 -0400, you wrote: >> Given also that the rubber and plastic and tape will turn to ossified crud >> over (a long) time anyway, I said "never again" and went to bushing cloth. > >I agree with Susan. The old method really had something going for it here. > >Susan, I don't even glue them. I just reach up from underneath and jam the >pointed ends of the two pieces of bushing cloth (say, two inches long) into >the hole in the lever, then reach down from the top and grab them w/needle >nose pliers and draw them up halfway through. I admit I don't do this very >often, but I don't remember having to take out an action to do it. Am I >overlooking something here? Probably... > >Bob Davis > Probably the only thing you're overlooking is a touch of paranoia on my part. I fret that over time unglued strips might find ways to migrate, though I've seen no evidence of it. Also, the 80- or 100-year-old wonders with the factory original "ears" which are often still working perfectly always had them glued. The actions I tend to remove for this are consoles, with little room for reaching the lever in the piano. More often, if a console action is already out for something else I'll put on the "ears" while it's easy. I wish the factories hadn't decided on grommets, which often fail in fairly short lengths of time, in comparison with the life expectancy of a piano. Susan Susan Kline P.O. Box 1651 Philomath, OR 97370 skline@proaxis.com "By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
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