WD-40 back

[pianoman]

Hi Mr. Simon,
	Your suggestions are good.  I will look for some pipe cleaners today. 
What kind and size of can do you use.?
	I was always afraid of using WD-40 at the pressure bar because of
travelling.  I used liquid wrench instead but it is super messy and always
the lid comes off the can and it pours it self out in my truck.
Thanks for the tip.
James Grebe
R.P.T. of the P.T.G.
 St. Louis, MO.
Competent Service since 1962
 Do what is right and do no harm
 Creator of  Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups and Practical Piano  Peripherals

pianoman@inlink.com        

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> From: BSimon1234@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: WD-40
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 2:38 AM
> 
> Thought I would throw in my two cents an the use of WD-40.
> 
> The only place on a piano I ever use WD-40 is on the let-off regulating
rail
> of big old upright pianos, where the threaded stems of the regulating
buttons
> are so rusted in place that they break before moving.  I run a syringe or
a
> saturated pipe cleaner along the stems of the buttons, wait a few
minutes, and
> then regulate. I have done this for 20 years and even a few days  later I
can
> detect no "residue" or adverse effects of the treatment, and the stems
still
> regulate very well. Ten years later they still regulate well.
> 
> A technician I learned from used a  pipe cleaner lightly wetted with
WD-40 to
> run along the strings at the capo bar before a tuning, but only when
there was
> a serious rust problem and the strings were more or less rusted to it. He
felt
> that the treatment eliminated a lot of string breakage during the pitch
raise.
> I agree with him. There seemed to be no adverse effect, and most of it
> evaporated in a minute or two. I would use it today, but in Arizona I do
not
> see to many strings rusted to capo bars.
> 
> By the way, I have found it to be a neat trick to stick a pipe cleaner
into
> the tip of the small can. It stays there, regulating the output when the
can
> is gently squeezed, and allows a paint brush effect. ( then you throw it
away
> and cap the can)
> 
> 
> B. Simon
> Phoenix
>