I suggest if the customer really wants to save $, you just continue to protek, goose juice, whatever, every service. I have many customers with sluggish parts and lube works until the next service...sort of. Don't waste $ on a half way repair, which will eventually need replacing...what will the customer think then...? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "William Monroe" <bill at a440piano.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Received: 1/27/2010 5:21:19 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] parts replacement due to vertigris >Adding to what Wim said, verdigris IS capable of spreading from a >contaminated birdseye to the flange. Replace the parts and be done. It is >penny wise but pound foolish to not replace the parts now. I can guarantee >new parts to be free from vertigris. I won't guarantee new flanges to >remain free from verdigris using the existing contaminated parts. >FWIW >William R. Monroe >On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:58 PM, David Nereson <da88ve at gmail.com> wrote: >> In a case of vertigris, can just the flanges (and of course, center pins) >> be replaced? It seems the parts most affected by vertigris are the center >> pins and the bushings in the flanges or shanks. There might be a little >> vertigris in the birdseye of a butt or wippen, but will that spread to the >> bushings of new flanges? I could see replacing an entire set of wippens if >> the jack and balancier pinning was also corroded in addition to the wippen >> flanges, but if not, do ya really have to replace all the wippens? (I'm >> trying to save the customer money by just replacing flanges and not having >> to replace wippens, or in the case of a vertical, the hammer butts.) >> --David Nereson, RPT >>
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