CLP takes on crunchy snow and loses (almost)

[Robin Blankenship]

Clyde,
Did you consider the bushings in the hangers??  The ones that hold the
lifter rod and allow it's rotation.
I believe that the application of CLP on the damper lever felts should last
a while. I've trusted to that a number of times. And, so far, no screaming
meamies.
Robin
----- Original Message -----
From: Clyde Hollinger <cedel@supernet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:58 PM
Subject: CLP takes on crunchy snow and loses (almost)


>Friends,
>
>The piano, 1965 Cable spinet.  The problem -- crunchy snow sound.  You
>know -- all those little ticks you hear when you depress the sustain
>pedal or whatever.
>
>So on this piano my tests indicated that the noise was coming from where
>the damper liftrod comes in contact with the damper lever felt.  And I
>tried something I had done successfully once before.  Without removing
>the action, I squirted Protek CLP on the wood at the bottom of each of
>the damper levers, since the felt was too far down to see, with the idea
>that if I used enough it would run down on the felt and stop the
>squeaks.
>
>I was dismayed when finishing this procedure to find that now the
>spoons, which were initially quiet, made so much crunchy snow noise that
>I couldn't tell if I solved the liftrod noise or not.  By using a lot
>more CLP and time than I intended, I got things quieted down again
>(better than before I started but not totally solved), but I live in the
>fear that the squeaks may re-appear, and what do I do then?  Remove the
>action and spray that ugly graphite stuff over everything?!
>
>Since I thought CLP was a lubricant to be used where felt contacts
>metal, why did it cause me grief this time?  Was I misusing the stuff?
>Please be gentle with me if I was a really bad boy.
>
>Regards,
>Clyde Hollinger