<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">OK Joe & Ron, I stand corrected. <div><br></div><div>I just never did see a problem, but I do understand how it could become a problem. I guess you "can" teach an old geezer some new tricks.<div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Al -</div><div>High Point, NC</div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 12/18/2011 10:34 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Al,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Even one (1) drop will creep a lot farther than you would imagine!! I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">strongly urge NOT using that stuff. My experiments showed me that it's a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">bad substance to have around a piano. That sort of rationale is wrong.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">We're not talking metal on metal, which it's made for. We're talking<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">metal IN WOOD! A whole different animal.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Just my take on it.<br></blockquote><br>Theoretically, you're talking about metal on metal, being the screw in the barrel. The reality is that any penetrating oil will inevitably escape into the surrounding wood, which as you say is decidedly un-good. That's why I suggested clipping the wire, removing the under lever, drilling the screw out (dry), and replacing either the under-lever top block, or the barrel and screw, and the damper wire. In the end, it'll be faster and less destructive than trying to soak the thing loose with some killer goop and ultimately being forced to replace it anyway when that doesn't work.<br><br>Ron N<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>