No, I have not. Since that time, I have sold the jobs replacing the parts. Will From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of David Love Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 9:09 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verdigris - again Rebushing is different from entire flange replacement though. Have you done it with replacing the entire flange. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of William Truitt Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 4:24 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Verdigris - again That is my experience also. Years ago I rebushed a Steinway upright's action centers for verdigris, didn't see the piano for about 4 years, and it was right back again when I did come back. How quickly it returns depends how bad the contamination was originally and the humidity conditions that the piano goes back into that tend to favor the prospering of the verdigris. Bottom line: It's going to cost the customer a fair amount for you to do this repining and rebushing. You must tell them that you cannot guarantee that the verdigris will not return. If you do, then you are on the hook. Tell them the only way you can guarantee it is to replace the parts. That may be the ugly, expensive truth, but it is what it is. Will Truitt From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jon Page Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 6:12 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/20091109/2c415947/attachment.htm>
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