This is a multipart message in MIME format ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I like the vodka idea. Does anyone know what the ratio is of= alcohol to water? I have a sluggish damper system to deal with= this week. I've tried Goose & Protek but it doesn't last, so= I'm going to try alchol/water. I suppose hair dryer would be= helpful but I imagine it will wreck havoc with the= tuning...maybe just the air moving no heat? If I'm making it= up myself, what is the ratio of alcohol to water? 1 part water= to 5 parts alcohol. David Ilvedson Original message From: tom driscoll To: Pianotech Received: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:35:42 -0500 Subject: Re: sluggish action ----- Original Message ----- From: Alpha88x@aol.com To: pianotech@ptg.org Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 1:03 PM Subject: Re: sluggish action Greetings, In addition to the other fine suggestions... Is the piano= in a moist basement? ..or has it been recently moved from a= moist place into a home? If recently moved from a moist= place(baseement or garage) into a home, then in a coulple weeks= the moistrue will dry out of the bushings a it sits in the= heated house and everything will return to normal by drying= allittle. If not, then the bushings of either the jack or the hammer= are swollen and need a shot of 5% to 10% alchohol to H2O(water).= There are disputes on the percentage of water to alchohol and= the TYPE of alchohol. I do about 10% alc to H20 and the alchohol= is isopropyl, because I cant get Ethyl anymore. Works for my= customers, fine. Julia Reading, PA Julia, Not my experiece-- When they get sluggish (as in the classic= Acrosonic sluggish ) thay will stay sluggish in the Sahara . I see Acros in January here in the northeast @ 20% RH .as= sluggish as can be. I do agree -- Alc., Water to shrink ,and or protek will= usually work. I just don't see swollen action center bushings "retreating"= to normal without help.perhaps your experience is different. As an aside, you can jump through all kinds of hoops trying= to get certain types of alc. but the cheapest vodka at the packy= works great--Just don't bring it in the ladies house still in= the bottle-- the neighbors might talk! Percentages ? Heck the= stuff is alcohol and water and is clear . I think we sometimes= get too carried away with exactitude with this kind of thing.= The alc. brings the water to the cloth and the bushing will= shrink. JMHO, Tom Driscoll RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1b/7f/78/e7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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