Decomposing key leads

Geoff Sykes thetuner at ivories52.com
Sun Sep 23 16:25:01 MDT 2007


I know that the subject of decomposing key leads has been brought up here
before, but a search of the archives brought up no results. 
 
New, 2005 or 2006 Hobart M. Cable upright, (OH-09 A). 
 
I noticed on the last tuning of this piano that all the key leads are
starting to get covered over with that white fluffy powder that indicates
decomposition. My first thought was that the owners of this inexpensive
piano would never go for key lead replacement. Besides, it's probably too
soon in the process to think in that direction. My next thought was to take
all the keys out and soft-wire brush the powder off the ends of the leads
and then seal them off with some clear spray paint of some kind. Lacquer,
Rust-O-Leum, AquaNet, whatever. Anything to hopefully stall the process. And
then I realized that the wiser thing to do would be to bring the subject up
here first. So, any thoughts? Any suggestions?
 
-- Geoff Sykes
-- Los Angeles
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