<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001>Hi</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>Protek does not work more than a few days (ProLube).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 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 color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>I switched to McLube 205 - the best I've find at this = day.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN = class=180262117-31102001>Isaac OLEG</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial 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 color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=180262117-31102001></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><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></BODY></HTML>