talcum powder!!!

[Joseph Garrett]

TVAK,
Try "sticker guide rail".
Joe Garrett
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: RE: talcum powder!!!


>
> In a message dated 8/31/01 9:10:58 AM, doepke@fwi.com writes:
>
> << I have found some white powdery substance in side of a Gulbranson. It
was
>
> especially prevalent in the tenor/high tenor area on the pressure bar.  Is
>
> that a type of rust or something?  It almost looks like talcum powder but
>
> with a greenish tint to it.  Any ideas...anyone? >>
>
> This looks like it was intentionally applied to that wooden bar (someone
tell
> me what to call this thing!) that is over the capstans. It has little
holes
> with red felt bushings which the stickers protrude through.  Each hole has
> some white powder (which smells and looks like talcum) dusted in and
around
> it.  I don't specifically see any white powder anywhere else, but I
theorized
> that it could have gotten into the hammer butt flange bushings making them
> sluggish.
>
> I have used Protek CLP in eliminating sluggish flanges with great success,
> but my specific concern was whether the talcum powder (if it IS talcum
> powder) in combination with CLP might make things worse!  (After all, if
you
> can mix water and flour and get paste, it's possible in my mind that CLP
plus
> talcum powder could make portland cement!)
>
> Tom Sivak
>