Some are, some aren't. Are you looking at Young Chang pins? They are plated. Paul McCloud San Diego ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Dierauf To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: 04/01/2009 9:30:57 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] stuck keys after one hour of playing Are center pins in fact plated? I have heard for years about issues with the plating on center pins, but I have never observed it myself. I took a file to this pin to see what lurked below the surface and it looks like the same material all the way through to me. Maybe I've just been examining the wrong pins! - Mark Joe And Penny Goss wrote: No oils will work if it is a plating issue. That was my first attempt to solve <G> the problem. Plating expands and grabs the felt. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com -- I once got engaged to his daughter, Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rock-bound coast. -- P. G. Wodehouse - Very Good, Jeeves (1930) ``Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit'' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/bc28925c/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 138670 bytes Desc: DSC02171.jpg URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/bc28925c/attachment-0001.jpe>
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC