[pianotech] Cleaning Very Old Plate (now string cleaning)

[Douglas Gregg]

Thumpe,
Don't worry about breaking the string when reinstalling. It rarely
happens. On occasion, when I am hand straightening a string it will
crack at the point where the coil ended. I think it was already
fatigued anyway. I always break off the becket and make a new one. I
have done a lot of sets with no problem,

Doug Gregg
Classic Piano Doc


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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:05:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>
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Would heating the straightened-out coils with a torch in some uniform,
controlled manner prior to reinstalling perhaps help prevent them from
breaking when being wound again around the pins???

Thumpe?
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