<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my previous post, I was referring to = CLP, not Prolube. Just a point of clarification.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=oleg-i@wanadoo.fr href="mailto:oleg-i@wanadoo.fr">Isaac = OLEG SIMANOT</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 31, = 2001 10:24 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: key pin = lubrication</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001>Hi</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001>Protek does not work more than a few days (ProLube).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>It is very quickly gummy, may be a reaction with the nickel pin, very bad = results I had.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>I switched to McLube 205 - the best I've find at this = day.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001>Isaac OLEG</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>P.S and the pins where washed clean , decontaminated and polished before = any application.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT = face=Tahoma size=2>-----Message d'origine-----<BR><B>De :</B> owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]<B>De la = part de</B> David Love<BR><B>Envoyé :</B> mercredi 31 octobre 2001 17:17<BR><B>À :</B> Pianotech<BR><B>Objet :</B> key pin lubrication<BR><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT size=2>I have for years used McClube to lubricate key = pins.  Recently, however, I was having a hard time getting rid of excess = friction prior to a weigh off and tried using Protek instead and = got quite good results.  Any others compared the two substances this way = and what have you found?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>David Love</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>