CLP takes on crunchy snow and loses (almost)

[Kristinn Leifsson]

I´ve found it to be very effective to take soap stone and rub it against
each felt.  Of course you might have difficulty comfortably applying that
method on a spinet.  With these friction problems, and particularly this
one, where it is felt that´s bugging you it´s better to do it to the point
of overkill.  Anyway, if you only put a lubricant on the wood in hope of it
running down on the felt, the uppermost part of the felt might absorb it
before it gets down to where the problem really might be.  

Take care of it once and for all.  
If you have to take it all apart, so be it.  
It´s better than having to go back to an annoyed customer all the time. 


Kristinn Leifsson
Reykjavík, Iceland    









At 23:58 8.11.1999 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
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