>>Changing the flanges is a waste of time. The vertigris is in the felt >>and the wood surrounding it. >Is that actually true? I know that rebushing the flanges is a waste since >the contaminants are in the wood of the flange but since the lubricant used >was originally in the felt of the flange bushing doesn't replacing the >flanges take care of the problem? If not that presumes that the lubricant >continues to migrate out of the birds eye and I wonder if it was ever there >to begin with. Anyway, I've not tried it but I wonder if anyone has done it >that way. I was thinking grand flanges. But even with changing upright flanges, the vertigris is also in the butt and will again migrate out to the bushings. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091109/d8da8852/attachment.htm>
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