<html> I made a tool to clean the grove out from a wire mute handle. File the point to be more blunt and bend it into a hook so that it will fit in between the wips. Now with the springs dislodged, run the hook along the slot to plough out the old lubricant. Then clean the spring with white Scotch Brite and a CLP. Place a small dab of your favorite lube du jour on the spring, reinstall and adjust. Sparingly apply Dag with an artist's brush to the repetition lever and burnish with the curved end of an ivory gluing plate while supporting the rep lever with the hook or some other similar tool. Brush the knuckles with a printer's type cleaning brush (available at your neighborhood letterpress supply  :-)  and rub in Teflon (or brush on a mixture of Protek and Teflon)  burnish with a tool consisting of cork gasket material glued to a strip of wood (Renner USA shank set separators). The brass type cleaning brush is great for hammers also. Jon Page PS That is the "express lube" for repetition lever slots. The major overhaul involves another tool to clean out the gunk. Also, the spring is removed from the jack slot. Dag is applied to the rep slot and the jack slot and the spring is opened at the coil.This makes them rather snappy :-) At 10:59 PM 6/17/99 -0400, you wrote: >List, >Have any of you noticed the correlation between difficulty of rep spring >regulation and amount of green goop in the rep spring lever slot on >Steinway actions? I've been regulating an L, using a technique taught by >the great John Hartman, whereby you use a small 1 gram (or so) weight which >you clip to the strike point of the hammer. When you set each hammer to >'just barely rise' from check, you get consistent spring tension, and a >very even 'speed of rise' difference from bass to treble. It has worked >well for me the few other times I have tried it, but on this one, despite >my best efforts, they end up working a little inconsistently. Is it the >green goop? This piano seems to have quite a bit of it. I know that it is a >special secret formula mixture of moose earwax and equatorial pond algae >designed especially to aid in repetition, but I was also wondering whether >anyone makes it a routine part of regulation to clean this out, and replace >it with graphite, Protek MPL, VJ lube, Chapstick, etc. I know it would only >help to replace it, but exactly how does one do this quickly and >efficiently? It's not in this piano's budget to disassemble to clean, or is >there an easier way? > >Ken Jankura >Newburg,PA > > > <div>Jon Page,  Harwich Port,  Cape Cod,  Mass.  <a href="mailto:jpage@capecod.net" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jpage@capecod.net</a></div> <div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</div> </html>