>Good Day, all! Can anyone direct me to a Journal article about >polyester finish repair? I have search the CD-ROM and find only ads >from Schaff. Has an article about this repair appeared since 1999, >maybe? I have never done this repair before, and am wondering about >the wisdom of diving into it on a customer's piano without prior >experience. Thanks, Patrick Poulson, RPT If this is a one shot repair, I would recommend you refer the repair to someone else with prior experience with polyester experience. You don't want to practice on your first polyester repair on a customers piano in their house though. It's sort of like when we get a customer who comes in looking to buy a tuning hammer and some mutes so they can tune their own piano. If you're interested in making this a regular part of your services you'll need the right materials, tools and go through a learning curve, as with most things. We've used polyester materials from Allied National Industries in the past with good results. We still use their buffing wheels (both a course one and a fine one). The Koning materials are better. They're available from Web Phillips (see: http://www.webbphillips.com/) To do it right you need to go out and buy a buffing machine with the proper rpm, which you can get at an auto body supply store that caters to the body shops (you won't find them at Home Depot, Sears, etc.). -- Glenn Grafton Grafton Piano & Organ Co. 1081 County Line Rd. Souderton PA 18964 http://www.graftonpiano.com/ glenn@graftonpiano.com 800-272-5980 The box said "Requires Windows 95, or better." So I bought a Macintosh.
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