Make sure the pedal board screws are tighten. You will have to use a tilter to lay the piano on its back. I would check the bottom front panel for trace of excess polyester on the bare edges. We had carry pianos from this factory and they are prone to pedal squeaks. Most times it was the lower front panel. Wayne Walker Piano Tuner / Technician Musicstop Acoustic Piano Service 264 Herring Cove Road Halifax, NS, Canada B3P 1M1 902-221-1540 902-496-6924 Fax HYPERLINK "http://www.musicstop.com/"www.musicstop.com -----Original Message----- From: piannaman at aol.com [mailto:piannaman at aol.com] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 11:16 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: damper mechanism squeaks....argh! Hi All, I thought I could solve any damper pedal mechanism squeak, and up until recently, I've had pretty good luck. Then I met a recent model Hallet-Davis (Dongbei built, I believe) upright. I lubricated and tightened everything I could think of. Here's the list of things I tightened and lubed: Lubed damper flange centers (protek CLP) damper springs (teflon powder) damper lever felt with teflon(two weeks prior) and protek last night lift rod with protek all rod tips and linkage w/ special blend tightened all screws on the various rails pedal rod hinge screws all pedal brackets and fixture screws all damper flange screws all available case screws In addition, I inserted buckskin pieces in places where case parts were rubbing and replaced the rubber pieces where the pedal rod inserts into the lift rod with buckskin pieces Noise still there…..argh! It sounds to me like it's the damper lever felt/lift rod interface. It doesn't happen when the pedal is first being used, say for 20-30 presses of the pedal. Then gradually, the creak comes back. I don't know what else to do. Did I miss anything? Any ideas? Dave Stahl Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ _____ HYPERLINK "http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/1615326657x4311227241x4298082137/aol?redir=ht tp%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaol%2Ecom%2Fnewaol" \nCheck out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more. _____ I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1579 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Try HYPERLINK "http://www.spamfighter.com"SPAMfighter for free now! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.25/593 - Release Date: 12/19/2006 1:17 PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20061221/a431196d/attachment.html
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