You may not have noticed the repairs on the Kimball grand keys in our shop, Ryan. They were done with an acrylic concoction I picked up from a local beauty supply store. It is supposed to be used for fingernail repairs, etc. Except for a very minor color mismatch the stuff filled some fairly deep gouges which are now almost invisible. These keys have a slightly matte finish-I did not try to buff them to a high polish; don't know how that would work. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA del at fandrichpiano.com ddfandrich at gmail.com Phone 360.736.7563 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Sowers Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:44 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Plastic key repair I've tried Acrylikey on celluloid keytops and it doesn't work so great. There is some reaction between the two materials that causes discoloration along the joint. I haven't tried it on acrylic keytop material though. Try it on a spare keytop first! With celluloid I have had some success making a filler out of teflon powder and CA glue with catalyst. On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Carlos Ralon <ceralon at comcast.net> wrote: List, Does the Acrylikey product work in repairing plastic keys with a fine crack? Each crack less than 1 inch. I think they are stress fractures. Only about 6 keys with the problem and I would like to not replace the full set. That plastic on the Baldwin studios does not respond well to heat removal. Carlos Ralon, RPT -- Ryan Sowers, RPT Puget Sound Chapter Olympia, WA www.pianova.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/89f8622a/attachment.htm>
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