Tight wippen centers

[Richard Brekne]

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Soap Chips ???

This is a new one on me.... anyone else ever used soap as a lubricant on
center pins ???... experience ??

RicB

Dave Bunch wrote:

> Seven years ago I had a customer with a Wurlitzer console that had
> very tight wippen centers. After finding that a bit of center pin lube
> was not going to do it, I treated them with Baldwin's bushing
> shrinking formula of methenol, water and dissolved Ivory soap chips. I
> dried them with the heat gun and it seemed to work fine. Now seven
> years later she wants to sell the piano and the wippen centers are
> sluggish again. Part of the problem is that the console action and
> keys are so light, that any friction anywhere is going to keep the
> action from returning. I could repin them, but she doesn't want to
> spend that much since frankly, the piano is not worth that much. Does
> anyone have a sure fire bushing treatment that will loosen the most
> stubborn centers? Dave Bunch

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
UiB, Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html


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