Slow Hammer Return

[Robin Blankenship]

Gee, I always thought it was important to clean the tuning pins off before welding them together..............(I hope NOBODY on this list thought I was actually serious about using WD-40 on pianos!!!)
robin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Avery 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:13 PM
  Subject: Re: Slow Hammer Return


  Well, personally, I'd rather try olive oil than WD-40 as a lubricant. :-) 

  I've seen the damage WD-40 can do to a piano. Especially when sprayed on the 
  tuning pins to clean off the rust! 

  Of course, I've also seen some of the damage that those olive type drinks can do, 
  too! :-D

  Avery 

  At 05:57 PM 6/3/2006, you wrote:

     
    That might well be ture, James, but I seriously doubt that olive oil is going to replace good old WD-40 as the lubricant of choice....................
     
    robin

      ----- Original Message ----- 

      From: James H Frazee 

      To: Pianotech List 

      Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:52 PM

      Subject: Re: Slow Hammer Return


      there may be hammer return springs broken.  They come off when we  pull dropped mutes out of the action.  When that happens, most of us put them back in the slot most of the time....



      I have a super-long pair of tweezers (about 9") just for this purpose (originally bought to get olives out of jar without pouring juice in my, uh, beverage of choice.)  It's amazing how many pianos have this problem when first encountered.


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