[pianotech] Jumpy tuning pins

[Sig]

Let me know if you find a solution. Sometime if pins are way to tight they
jump. I have hear of putting a drop of protex lubricant on jumping pins but
have not tried it. Perhaps you could start out deluted on one or a few pins
to see if it works.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Wesley Hardman <hardmanwesley84 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Approximately 35 year old Wurlitzer spinet has jumpy tuning pins, making it
> extremely hard, if not impossible to do a fine tuning.  Would it be helpful
> to treat the pinblock with a restorer material such as Garfield's Pinblock
> Restorer?  When I started servicing this piano, it had a dehumidifier rod
> without a humidistat installed in the bottom, and who knows how many years
> it had been operating.
>
> Wesley Hardman, RPT
> Scottsboro, Alabama
>
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