applying Teflon powder

[Jon Page]

Grasshopper, the tool is made from two items.
A pipe cleaner and a length of player piano tubing.

Insert the pipe cleaner into the tubing (which acts as a handle,
hint: Teflon powder acts as a lubricant for insertion), allowing a half
inch protrusion of the pipe cleaner beyond the tubing.

Insert the tool (pipe cleaner end first) into the Teflon powder and tap
the tool on the side of the container to shake loose excess material.

Pick up a key with the other hand which does not hold the Teflon 
application tool.

Insert the pipe cleaner end (which has the Teflon powder) into the balance rail
bushing with your thumb orientated towards the front of the key.
Use a few up & down strokes to transfer Teflon powder from the
pipe cleaner to the bushing, no twisting/rotating of the tool.

Here's there important part:
Remove the pipe cleaner straight out (no spinning of the tool). With 
a slight motion
of the key-holding wrist, invert and rotate the key 90 degrees and 
insert the pipe
cleaner into the front rail bushing, with your thumb now orientated 
90 degree to
the front of the key. Use a few up & down strokes to transfer Teflon 
powder from
the pipe cleaner to the bushing.

In the first application to the balance rail bushing, you removed 
powder from two
quadrants of the applicator for the balance rail bushing; upon 
rotating and inverting the
key, you applied powder to the front rail bushing from the two 
remaining quadrants.

A final insertion and spin of the tool into the balance rail hole 
finishes the application
with the residual Teflon left on the tool. Time: 20 minutes per set.

I hope that explanation was clear enough. It has been pointed out to me
that I've been too vague on some explanations. Sorry, no jpg's available.
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Regards,

Jon Page