There must be hundreds of technicians that have dealt with verdigris; have they all seen it come back when replacing only the flanges? The only alternative would be to replace shanks and flanges; which means replacing hammers also, or popping off the old ones and regluing. Best, Peter Peter Poole ppoole at metrocast.net On Nov 8, 2009, at 9:07 PM, David Love wrote: > Is that actually true? I know that rebushing the flanges is a waste > since the contaminants are in the wood of the flange but since the > lubricant used was originally in the felt of the flange bushing > doesn’t replacing the flanges take care of the problem? If not that > presumes that the lubricant continues to migrate out of the birds eye > and I wonder if it was ever there to begin with. Anyway, I’ve not > tried it but I wonder if anyone has done it that way. > > David Love > www.davidlovepianos.com > > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf Of Jon Page > Sent: Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:12 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verdigris - again > >> re my earlier post about how long to replace set of flanges-that is >> why >> I am doing this job. Almost every note is frozen. Never seen such a >> bad >> case. > > Changing the flanges is a waste of time. The vertigris is in the felt > and the wood surrounding it. > > -- > > Regards, > > Jon Page
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