Mike: I know I can rebush a guide rail much faster than I could hope to clean the old bushings. The bushing material is not very expensive, so I would think you could save her some money by simply rebushing. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 2/13/2002 at 2:02 PM Mike and Jane Spalding wrote: >List, > >I had an appointment this morning to voice a Kawai grand for a new >customer, a teacher. She also asked me to fix a "ringer", damper not >seating reliably. Actually, there was a whole bunch of dampers that would >seat on a hard staccato blow, but on a gentle release would not come all >the way down. I pulled one out, and found a black deposit on the wire >(where it should have been polished from the bushing), and a pile of >graphite powder on the guide rail around the bushing. Yes, she remebers >now, a tuner had lubricated the sticky dampers for her several years ago... > >So here's my question - I know I'll have to remove the dampers and the >guide rail to fix this problem. Obviously, I'll polish the damper wires. >Can I clean the graphite out of the bushings, say with naptha and a pipe >cleaner, or should I just go ahead and re-bush? The bushings don't seem >to have any excess play in them, so I'd like to save her some money by >just cleaning and lubing, but not if this is going to come back and bite >me in the butt in a couple of years. What do you think? > >thanks, > >Mike _____________________________ David M. Porritt dporritt@mail.smu.edu Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 _____________________________
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