Tuners--Broken Pins

[Barrie Heaton]

Hi Newton,

First let me give you a little history of why we chose electroplate.
The Company I used to work for had a separate polishing Department and
enclosed spray booths.  That Company closed,  I went self-employed and a
new Company was set up in a new building with the old Management.

I worked for this Company for two days a week.  Now they had an open
plan workshop with one of the new type of extraction units for spray
booths.  Anyone who has worked near a spray polisher,   knows no matter
how good the extraction system is, the celleouse over spray settles
everywhere.  So you can imagine what happened when they sprayed the gold
celleuose on to the frames.   Little gold spettles appeared everywhere.
Not much cop,  if you have just spent a couple of hours matching up
ivories and polishing them to find out the following day little gold
spettles stuck to your ivories:-(( well upset.

So we opt for the electroplating, this cost us a hundred and twenty
pounds,  this included the Company picking up and re-delivering the
frames or plates as you call them.  The finish is quite impressive and
extremely hard wearing,   I would difinitely reccommend it for very
badly chipped and marked frames as the electroplating fills these up to
a smooth shiny car show room finish.

However, (there is always a however in life) we did leave the Agraphs in
the first frame, that we did.   They looked impressive but sadly the
piano sounded crap.  We put it down to the electroplating altering the
dimentions of the bearing points within the agraph.  So the next frame
the electroplated without the Agraphs with instructions to the Company
to ensure that the threads of the agraph holes should not be plated.
How they did this I'm not so sure but they did comply.  I personally
prefer shiny brass agraphs myself,  even now whenI re-string a piano,
the last one just been before Christmas with agraphs. I removed them all
clean them with a soft brass brush and gently buffed them up on the
buffing wheel.

At present, I personally am using aerosole cans with the colour "Ford
Arizona Gold metalic",  as all of the frames I tend to do come across
these days are not too badly damaged,  they only need freshening up, I
put three coats on,  cutting back on each coat and finally T-cutting to
bring up that high gloss shine.

Hope I haven't bored you to death.

Kind regards,

Barrie.


In article <9701051545.ZM8700@niflheim.rutgers.edu>, Newton Hunt
<nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu> writes
>Hey, Barry,
>       What would be wrong about gold plating agraffes?  How much does gold
>plaing a plate cost?  Tell us more!
>               Newton
>               nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu
>





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