Often that's true but not always. I've encountered old actions with a still good set of hammers, good match for the leverage just vergiris problems and often only in the hammer flange--not to mention a customer who can't afford an entire action rebuild. If there were a center pin that was made out a material that functioned in that situation I'd probably find occasion to use it. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: Dale Erwin <erwinspiano at aol.com> Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:43:49 To: <caut at ptg.org> Reply-To: caut at ptg.org Subject: [CAUT] Fwd: Steinway verdigris Ok, by the way "If want to know the truth, I'll stop having opinions" Sounds good aye? Dale S. Erwin Dear friends/colleagues Forgive the cavalier attitude from a sick human being.... but.....who really who cares? Practically the hammers and knuckles are probably toasted anyway. As well the knuckles are most likely in the wrong place now for modern hammer weights. Even with a new center pin of magical properties the bushings are gooped up. Ok .... Back to the couch Dale S. Erwin www.Erwinspiano.com Custom restoration Ronsen Piano hammers Join the Weickert felt Revolution 209-577-8397 209-985-0990 -----Original Message----- From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 7:50 pm Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway verdigris Maybe it' time for anodized aluminum center pins. Anyway, the question still stands, if you repinned with a non reactive material could you solve the problem without changing parts and what would that material likely be? David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:21:48 -0800 To: <caut at ptg.org> ReplyTo: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Steinway verdigris On 1/9/2011 3:02 PM, David Love wrote: But are they 60% copper at the point of contact? I assumed that the center pins are solid nickel silver and not plated -- but these days, I'm learning not to depend too much on the accuracy of my assumptions. Susan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110110/596b9b01/attachment.htm>
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