[pianotech] Baldwin upright - bobbling hammers

[Ron Nossaman]

On 12/22/2011 10:53 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote:
> Ron,
> We should have a contest in naming the stuff.<G>  (I refrained from using my
> exclamation point, because there are those who wish I wouldn't.)
> I'll submit: Skunkfam. After all the stuff really stinks and sticks to
> ya<G>! (oops, fell off the wagon already.<G>)
> BTW, I've replaced a few of those with the sticky black crap whatever it's
> called. Really a pain to get that stuff off of the parts and get rid of the
> residual. I used several chemicals to get it off of the wood. Don't
> remember which one did the trick, but my memory pads seem to say Lacquer
> thinner. Any thoughts?
> Joe

Lacquer thinner is as good a place to start as any, or MEK. I've never 
replaced any of the black sticky stuff because the action almost works 
with it - unlike the hard Corfam. I still don't see why it's so 
impossible to come up with a real name for the stuff though.
Ron N