Protecting plain wire from rust

[David Ilvedson]

Does DamppChaser recommend a string cover with installation?   In other words do they think 
using a DamppChaser without a string cover is like air conditioning with the windows open?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano at bellsouth.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 3/27/2006 3:32:32 AM
Subject: Re: Protecting plain wire from rust


>Only if the felt string cover is installed in addition to the humidity 
>control system can you be completely assured of no rust development. Having 
>the dampp chaser system with no felt cover is like having a good air 
>conditioning system with the windows open.
>Tom Servinsky
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
>Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:57 PM
>Subject: Re: Protecting plain wire from rust


>> IMHO, the strings in a piano equipped with a properly operating DC system 
>> will not develope rust. Have you monitored the RH of the piano interior 
>> (is this an upright)?
>>
>> Terry Farrell
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> I have a customer with a 1919 Hazelton Bros. piano that I service 
>>> regularly
>>> that has rusty strings. The piano has had a DC in it for years. I 
>>> recently
>>> replaced it as the tank for the old one literally fell out of the piano.
>>> Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the DC is functionally 
>>> correctly
>>> and is properly maintained, the strings continue to show increasing signs 
>>> of
>>> rust. Do you think that employing your Vaseline treatment to these 
>>> strings
>>> at this late stage might be beneficial? If yes, how would you go about
>>> applying this treatment to strings already in the piano?
>>>
>>> -- Geoff Sykes
>>> -- Assoc. Los Angeles
>>
>>
>>