<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Perhaps. But one has to differentiate between musically worthy and financially worthy. Many pianos - especially many of the high-end old uprights are very much musically worthy of complete restoration/remanufacture, but very few folks that are willing to pay the $$. Sad but true.<div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:51 AM, David Nereson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I would think a straight-strung 100-yr-old Bechstein would be an antique worthy of complete restoration.<br>--David Nereson, RPT  <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Dale Erwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erwinspiano@aol.com" target="_blank">erwinspiano@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">By the way...there is a guy in San Diego who has given the WD-40 or some form of lubricant treatment to what may be some thousands of piano. Yes, he has been sued and he has lost but still his thinking surely was derange.  I am </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">replacing belly parts </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">in a Mason A that got the treatment on the bridge ,block/tuning pin area, strings.</font> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> Killed the tone in an other wise healthy and  </font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">fairly</font><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> young piano.</font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Wow!</font></div> <div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale<br> </font><br> <div style="color:navy;font-family:'Comic Sans MS',sans-serif;font-size:10pt;clear:both"><font color="royalblue" size="1"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style:italic"><b><font size="1"><font color="black" size="1"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"> <font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com/" target="_blank">www.Erwinspiano.com</a></font><font size="1"><br> </font><font color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1">Phone: 209-577-8397</font><br> <font color="darkgreen"></font></font></b></span></font><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>   <font></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div><div><div class="h5"> <br> <br> <div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica">-----Original Message-----<br> From: David Boyce <<a href="mailto:David@piano.plus.com" target="_blank">David@piano.plus.com</a>><br> To: pianotech <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> Sent: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 5:03 pm<br> Subject: Re: [pianotech] WD40 on pinblock<br> <br> <div> <font face="Arial"> <blockquote type="cite">I had a well-meaning cohort who thought it would be prudent to clean all the rust off the tuning pin coils with WD40 and a wire wheel in a Dremel tool.  It looked real pretty when he was done, but the pinblock was ruined.  Pins that were already quite loose slipped their bonds and went WAAAYYY flat.  The piano was untunable.  It had already been doped AND treated with CA glue.  The WD40 finished if off.  Time for new block and restringing. <br> Trouble is, it's a no-name mediocre 5-ft. grand.  Barely worth it. <br> --David Nereson, RPT</blockquote> <br> Ouch.  What a pity.  The situation will be the same here, if the pinblock is ruined by the WD40. The piano, though a Bechstein, is straight strung and 100 years old, and hardly of a value that would justify a new pinblock and restinging.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David.<br> </font> </div> </div> </div></div></div> </font></blockquote></div><br> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>