Fun polishing BR pins :-)

[Diane Hofstetter]

>Diane
>This sounds great! Thanks for this knuckle saver!!!!  Did you use a
>polishing compound?

Yep, my favorite: Mother's Mag and Aluminum Polish, works great on all kinds 
of things.



Were the carpet strips a loop or cut pile? I'm guessing
>the nylon alone would be abrasive enough to do the job, but I can't picture
>the type of nap.

They were cut pile, they came from folders of carpet samples.

It _really was_ fun!
Diane


>
>Paul Chick
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner@hotmail.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:16 AM
>Subject: Fun polishing BR pins :-)
>
>
> > A job I hate, I save up all the balance rail pin polishing for years if
> > necessary until I have a new apprentice.  This time, however, there was 
>no
> > way out of it, there was no one to do it but me :-(
> >
> > Miracle of all miracles!  I found an easy way!  No skinned knuckles!  It
>was
> > actually fun!
> >
> > Discovered some hand-me-down carpet samples yesterday.  1/2" pile nylon
> > carpet.  Cut two strips 6" x 1 1/2".  Held them back to back and
>shoeshined
> > between pins!  Eureka!  Beautiful! Easy! Fun!  Sometimes only used one
> > strip.
> >
> > Carpet strips worked great to polish capstans too.  Now looking for
> > something else to polish!  Will polish for food!
> >
> > Diane
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