Fw: cleaning center&front rail pins

[Perry Williams]

Thank you for your response I went back into my 20 yrs
of the ptg journal on CD  and bought a 3/8 inch deep
well which I will pack 3 -4 front rail bushings the
hardware store only had Brasso which I will try then
use 5/8 deep well for the front rail bushings my appt
is today if you would like I will let you know how it
turns out Thanks Again, Perry ps this is being done
with a black and decker professional drill I estimate
from the tip 15 sec on each pin should suffice..
--- "Kevin E. Ramsey" <kevin.e.ramsey@cox.net> wrote:
> Oops! Forgot to mention the fact that Jim's tool
> gets chucked into a 3/8"
> drill!  Dang! I hate when that happens!
> Kevin
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin E. Ramsey
> To: Pianotech
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: cleaning center&front rail pins
> 
> 
> Well, I suppose most people use Flitz on a cloth,
> wrapped around the pin and
> pulled back and forth vigorously.
> 
>     What I've been doing for the past few years is a
> little different. I
> have a little tool that Jim Coleman, JR makes that's
> a pin polisher. It's an
> aluminum sleeve on a spindle in which you pack a
> whole bunch of balance rail
> cloth punchings. I use it primarily on the balance
> rail pins.  The first
> time I used it, I put some flitz down in it, and the
> result was some pretty
> brass balance rail pins, since then I only use some
> CLP soaked into the
> punchings. The crud on the pins will supply any
> abrasive I need. You can do
> the entire set after removing the keys in less than
> five minutes.
>     On the front rail, I use a dremel tool with the
> little felt polishing
> wheels. I just put some CLP on the wheel, and buff
> both sides. It helps to
> do the sharps from the back side of the frame. Doing
> it this way seems to
> burnish the polymer into the metal of the pins while
> it does the polishing.
>     We had one set of Steinway keys that were
> re-bushed and were too tight;
> no side play. Before I eased the keys, I did this,
> and when I was done, I
> found that easing the keys wasn't necessary, there
> was really no excess
> friction. I figured that, with wear, there would be
> side play soon enough.
> The piano never developed any problem, either, which
> seems to suggest that
> the treatment was fairly permanent.
> Kevin E. Ramsey
> 
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