Hi John, This might be a little tedious to apply. If you are going to Reno you might check out my "Goose Juice" for this situation. Joe Goss imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R Fortiner" <pianoserv440@juno.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: Re: Agraffe lubing?? > Roger: Which Protek product are you referring to?? I can't really tell > as you said "one drip" - which makes it soul like Protek CLP, but you > might be referring to Protek MPL - their "heavier" lube. > fwiw I have been to a bulk lubricant distributor where I was given a > sample of a lube called Aeroshell #6 - an aviation lube. This stuff is > used between brass and steel parts (control cables for example) in > aircraft and is guaranteed not to cause any problems between the two > metals. I am bringing this up as I have a M&H "A" that has agraffes that > are badly worn resulting in poor string rendering. My idea was the same > as you have posted - placing a TINY bit on the top of the wire segment > that is between the tuning pin and the agraffe - as close as possible to > the agraffe - loosen the wire to allow the wire to carry the lube into > the agraffe, then pull it back up to pitch. Needless to say, it will > take very little lube to do this - assuming that it works. My mind tells > me it should work, but I've been known to make more than a few thousand > errors in judgement in my life. :-( > > John R. Fortiner > Billings, MT. > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:07:27 -0500 jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> > writes: > > > Hi Don, > > One drip of protec applied with a tooth pick on each of > > the > > agraffe holes will solve the rendering hassles. Drop the tension a > > little > > before raising, and it will tune just like any other piano. > > Regards Roger > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.
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