John, What's the solution of oxalic acid you mention below (how saturated?) and where does one find this stuff? This looks like a good way to clean old parts.... I enjoyed your damper article - thanks for sharing that. Best regards, Allen Wright London, UK On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:14 PM, John Delacour wrote: > At 21:53 +0100 4/6/08, David Boyce wrote: > >> ...There are precious few rebuilders of the calibre of our august >> JD of this list. > > And here was me thinking I was only beginning June! But then it's > a long long while from May to September and I'm nearer October... > >> And those that there are, are not substantial employers and >> trainers of others. It is not economically possible for them to >> be. So the number of training places available with good >> rebuilders in the UK is vanishingly small. > > As a matter of fact I'm seriously considering taking on an > apprentice who really wants to learn the trade thoroughly and stick > at it. In fact there are very few restorers in England of any > quality and what people learn at the few schools there are, or have > been, is very superficial. > > I had a girl (30!) down from London last week for three days, who > works with some colleages of mine there for whom I do a bit of > work, and she's coming again in July, when we'll talk a bit more > about the long term, but I don't know yet how committed she is. > There's so much to learn and it's no trade for the part-timer, let > alone the botcher. > > Alicia is welcome to visit us when she's in England. > > Here's an article I've just uploaded showing upright damper > recovering: > > <http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/upright_dampers/> > > JD > > > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Delacour Pianos * Silo * Deverel Farm * Milborne St. Andrew > Dorset DT11 0HX * England > Phone: +44 1202 731031 > Mobile: +44 7801 310 689 * Fax: +44 870 705 3241 > ______________________________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080607/2be15592/attachment.html
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