Fireproof action?

[Willem Blees]

Ed

As you probably know, smoke gets into everything, under, around and through the entire action. Even if you put the whole piano, much less the action, in a smoke enders room, it won't remove the soot that penetrated the action parts, including the hammer felt,?punchings felts, under key felts, etc.. It will also corrode all metal parts, pins of all sorts, including?the center pins inside the Teflon?bushings. In other words, to be safe, replace all the action?parts. ?If you don't recommend for it to be done now, while the insurance is still handing out checks, they won't do it in 10 years when all these parts start developing problems. 


Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
Honolulu, HI
Author of 
The Business of Piano Tuning
available from Potter Press
www.pianotuning.com


-----Original Message-----
From: A440A at aol.com
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 8:12 am
Subject: Fireproof action?



Greetings, 
   Ok,  now I am going to examine a fire piano, no heat, just a lot of smoke 
and some vapor damage.  I am going to assume it will need new strings, at the 
least, but wonder about total action replacement, This is a teflon action.  I 
have seen felt actions corrode over the year or so after exposure to smoke 
damage like this, but has the list any experience with teflon?  (We tend to only 

burn the old ones here in Tennessee). 
Regards, 

Ed Foote RPT 
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