Hi Dale, Are you up for a challange? If you have some really bad verdigris flange's (with shanks) please send them to me. I will treat them, and send them back to you. (Found a long term treatment- not my discovery, Robin Huffords...Ft Worth Texas Chapter...it works, long term, on nasty verdigris) Dan > Dear List > Nothing works for verdigris long term. Not protek ,not rebushing, not > shrinking, silicine oil,not mineral oil ,snake oil or 30 weight motor oil. > Been down that dead end road. Temporary solutions at best. > > Dale Erwin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "thepianoarts" <thepianoarts@home.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:08 PM > Subject: Re: too stiff > > >> Hi Wayne, >> >> >> Not mush verdigris on the pins? A little is way too much. If this is a >> Steinway Upright, there are fluids that will disolve the verdigris. Post > me >> privatly, and I will visit with you about techniques that work. >> >> Dan >> >> on 9/17/01 7:35 PM, Wayne Hohle at wayne.hohle@sympatico.ca wrote: >> >>> hi there >>> i appreciated your timely comments on sluggish centers and wondered of >>> you could comment on this again for me. i'm dealing with an upright >>> action that has several butt flange centers that stiffen up with just a >>> bit of humidity. i had the action out to change some of the pins and was >>> >>> working on it in front of a patio door and the heat coming in was enough >>> >>> to solve a lot of the problem. as soon as the action is put back in the >>> piano , in just a short time the centers tighten up. i put in a 25 watt >>> >>> dampchaser bar without humidistat for a few weeks , it did help but the >>> customer still has some reason to complain. there is not much verdigris >>> on the pins. >>> what would you do? >>> thanks if you could comment >>> wayne >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
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