Steve Brady introduced me to Ballistol a couple of years ago. Even though I respect him highly as a technician, I have sparingly used it here & there and have been impressed with it (plus it smells good!). I have added it to the magic liquids in my tool kit. I have heard that Bosendorfer recommends Ballistol to lube leather keybushings, but have not confirmed it. Best regards, Dave Davis Davis Piano Service 425-226-0102 -----Original Message----- From: Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:40:43 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Subject: Re: [pianotech] squeaking leather key bushings I have found Ballistol to be great stuff for keybushings. On grands I remove the key upstop rail and tip the action up on end and use a small artist brush to apply a thin coating to the pins. It seems to work as good as anything - and I've tried most of whats out there. I like that its a fairly "natural" product. If I have the keys out of the piano I put it on a small rag and just wipe the keypins. That way you don't put on too much. On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 5:40 AM, John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> wrote: > *Ballistol, from Mother Goose Tools should work for leather.* > *John Ross* > *Windsor, Nova Scotia* > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Gregor_ <karlkaputt at hotmail.com> > *To:* pianotech at ptg.org > *Sent:* Saturday, March 21, 2009 9:24 AM > *Subject:* [pianotech] squeaking leather key bushings > > List, > > what would you use to eliminate the squeaking of old leather key bushings? > I assume nothing that is liquid or greasy? What´s about talkum powder or > teflon powder? And what´s about Protec CLP (which is liquid)? > > A customer called me today and complained about squeaking. I tuned her > piano and eliminated some squeaking 6 weeks ago, but I can´t remember the > origin of that squeaking nor what I did to fix it. Given that it was a key > squeaking and not an action squeaking I assume that I applied some talkum > powder to the leather. If so, it seems that this is not a long lasting > solution for that problem. What would be better in the long run? > > Maybe that I am completely wrong and that the squeaking had another source, > e.g. the center of the jack or whatever. > > Gregor > > ------------------------------ > Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Check > it out! <http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx> > > -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090321/8589f28e/attachment.html>
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