That put a lot of lead dust in the air! dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jim Henson Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 12:22 PM To: tcole at cruzio.com; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] key leads I've just dealt w/ same prob . on an aliquot grand moved to Dallas from N. Orleans 5 yrs. ago. Initially no problems but 2 mon.s ago sev. keys unplayable. I put a round 220 grinding wheel in my 3/8/ drill & simply lifted keys high enough to knock a little of lead off. Touch weight was negligi- ble, Jim Henson, DFW. On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Thomas Cole <tcole at cruzio.com<mailto:tcole at cruzio.com>> wrote: I would agree that banging out the expanding leads would risk some chipping out of the key material. I use a Harbor Freight arbor press for lead removal and rig up an "anvil" with a hole slightly larger than the lead to support the wood and minimize the chipping. Tom Cole David Ilvedson wrote: If I was to change the leads, I would just replace not re-weigh the action. This is an old Apollo grand (beautiful Mission case with 6 legs...not a player)...I'm going to give owner the option of replacing. None of the keys are cracking yet... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091217/5c851885/attachment.htm>
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