[CAUT] Worn whippen cushions / VS Profelt

[Chris Solliday]

you don't need to sand, retaining all material and removing the indentation
with the liquid swell is sufficient and allows the material to last longer.
Skol
Chris Solliday
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: [CAUT] Worn whippen cushions / VS Profelt


> Hi
>
> With all the discussion surrounding this stuff, I decided to try it out
> on an old Hume today.  The whippen cushions were deeply indented so I
> smoothed things out a bit with 80 grit sand paper and then put a couple
> drops of this stuff  on each cushion right at the indent. That,
> polishing the capstans, and polishing the keypins along with adding
> telfon powder to key bushings and knuckles resulted in a huge drop in
> friction. I went from an average of 18-20 grams of friction down to
> around 10 grams.
>
> The indentation was not completely removed by the sanding, but  a half
> an hour after applying the VS Profelt there was no sign of any
> indentations any more.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>