[pianotech] using jiffy leads????

[Ron Nossaman]

On 11/13/2010 9:26 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote:
>But what if I take out the lead in the
> key, and attach a jiffy lead on top of the key?


> Am I missing something here, or does this sound like a viable and
> respectable repair?
> Wim

What are the considerations? What was there originally isn't working. 
That's the big one, and ignoring it hasn't worked in the past. What 
ought to be the adequate conventional repair isn't working dependably. 
That's strike two. Where does that leave you? You can do a conventional 
re-lead with Bismuth or Tungsten, which would probably work great and be 
an interesting project, but might be a tough sell. So why not external 
(Jiffy or otherwise) leads? This is still a long way past a trivial 
repair if you were doing the entire key set, so I presume you're just 
doing individual keys as needed?

As a matter of practicality, I think, before I resorted to Jiffy leads 
I'd replace individual problem leads with new of similar size and get a 
fresh start. If the problem comes back in 50 years (and you KNOW the 
piano will still be there), we'll deal with it then.
My take,
Ron N