Don writes: > A fellow colleague proteked the hammer and whippen flanges of a >new Steinway only to have them completely seize up resulting in the need >to repin the whole darn works. So.....is the bushing cloth used on these > instruments treated with Emeralon which reacts adversely to Protek? Greetings, I don't know what is in them, but siezed bushings is a recurrent problem in the new Steinways. On factory recommendation, I treated a set of 4 year old hammer bushings with straight alcohol,(methanol, from the pharmacy). The next day, half of them were wobbly so I repinned the entire 88. I now repin when there is a problem in the new bushings, it is the ONLY way I have found to KNOW that the problem is corrected. Regards, Ed Foote RPT
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