Yes, well that's the question. Will it migrate from the butt to the bushings in a new flange? I'm not sure either way. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jon Page Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 3:12 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verdigris - again Changing the flanges is a waste of time. The vertigris is in the felt and the wood surrounding it. 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. I was thinking grand flanges. But even with changing upright flanges, the vertigris is also in the butt and will again migrate out to the bushings. -- Regards, Jon Page -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091109/15ad4694/attachment-0001.htm>
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