On Aug 17, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Amadeus Piano wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m looking for advice on the best way to lube the jack flanges on a > 70s Story & Clark console piano. Is it necessary to remove the > wippens to do this properly? It’s all pretty tight. > > This piano has a handful of notes skipping—plays the first few > times, then stops playing, key goes up and down but hammer doesn’t > jump forward. The jack’s not resetting. > > I believe the likely culprit is the jack flange or maybe even the > jack spring. (The keys appear to work ok—the fronts come up nicely, > bushings don’t seem too tight, no rubbing against neighbors; the > wippen cushions appear ok, the capstans appear well regulated, etc.). > > And because it sat un-serviced and un-played for so long, I’d like > to lube all the flanges. > > I have Protek but I don’t have any sort of long wand to spray it, > carefully, that far back. > > Thanks in advance for any assistance, Gary > > > Gary, you can buy a so called 'needle applicator'. It has a very thin needle which fits in between the flanges. That way you can lube all center pins in about 10 minutes. friendly greetings from André Oorebeek Antoni van Leeuwenhoekweg 15 1401 VW, Bussum the Netherlands tel : +31 35 6975840 gsm : +31 652 388008 www.concertpianoservice.nl "where Music is no harm can be" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090817/9b41e550/attachment.htm>
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