too stiff

[thepianoarts]

Hi Dale,

Are you up for a challange? If you have some really bad verdigris flange's
(with shanks) please send them to me. I will treat them, and send them back
to you. (Found a long term treatment- not my discovery, Robin Huffords...Ft
Worth Texas Chapter...it works, long term, on nasty verdigris)

Dan  
> Dear List
> Nothing works for verdigris long term. Not protek ,not rebushing, not
> shrinking, silicine oil,not mineral oil ,snake oil or 30 weight motor oil.
> Been down that dead end road. Temporary solutions at best.
> 
> Dale Erwin
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "thepianoarts" <thepianoarts@home.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:08 PM
> Subject: Re: too stiff
> 
> 
>> Hi Wayne,
>> 
>> 
>> Not mush verdigris on the pins?  A little is way too much. If this is a
>> Steinway Upright, there are fluids that will disolve the verdigris. Post
> me
>> privatly, and I will visit with you about techniques that work.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> on 9/17/01 7:35 PM, Wayne Hohle at wayne.hohle@sympatico.ca wrote:
>> 
>>> hi there
>>> i appreciated your timely comments on sluggish centers and wondered of
>>> you could comment on this again for me. i'm dealing with an upright
>>> action that has several butt flange centers that stiffen up with just a
>>> bit of humidity. i had the action out to change some of the pins and was
>>> 
>>> working on it in front of a patio door and the heat coming in was enough
>>> 
>>> to solve a lot of the problem. as soon as the action is put back in the
>>> piano , in just a short  time the centers tighten up. i put in a 25 watt
>>> 
>>> dampchaser bar without humidistat for a few weeks , it did help but the
>>> customer still has some reason to complain. there is not much verdigris
>>> on the pins.
>>> what would you do?
>>> thanks if you could comment
>>> wayne
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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