I did a set of square grommets about 75 miles away from home a few months ago. I had already seen the piano, but had not noticed rust on the screws. I was able to run to a nearby hardware store and buy some wire brushes on handles and also small ones for a drill. The drill did the trick very quickly. Dave Stocker Tumwater, WA From: Gerald Groot Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 8:18 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Kimball Whitney Spinet Our favorite piano... But, a very good customer. I've been tuning this piano like clockwork every year for the past 25 years or more during the last week in January. Very well taken care of except for the fact that the rubber grommets were getting very noisy and brittle. Today, I took the action to my shop. Remember how they put in those screws? Those 20 foot long screws? RAM them in without pre-drilling or proper sized drilling? What a miserable thing to take apart! Even the fall board screws were jammed in. I had all I could do to get them out without stripping the slot in the flat head screws. Then, I had to literally jam the grommets off from the keys as carefully as possible with a screwdriver. No way could I pull them off they were like, frozen in place. It was then, that I discovered sometime in the past year or two, I hadn't noticed it before, there was mice piss all over the place. On the stickers, the threads, the grommets, prongs on the ends of the keys etc. What a fricken mess. Talk about RUST??? It's all over those parts. Now, I am deciding on the best course of action to remove the rust. I'm thinking, either good old fashioned steel wool or a drill with a wire brush perhaps? However, I do not want to ruin the threads either. Someone mentioned using "Never Dull" but, I've not tried it on rust before. Works great on brass or balance rail pins.. Anyway, I will be working on this action tomorrow in the shop. Any bright ideas out there for removing this rust easily besides good old fashioned elbow grease? Thanks, Jer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090615-0, 06/15/2009 Tested on: 6/15/2009 11:18:13 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090615/bae1bb8d/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 14480 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090615/bae1bb8d/attachment-0001.jpeg>
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