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Dave,
<br> Looks like you get a lot of use out of your supply.
Thanks for the tips!
<p>Greg
<p>Dave Nereson wrote:
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<a href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net" title="gnewell@ameritech.net">Greg
Newell</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Pianotech@ptg.org" title="Pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech@ptg.org</a></div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 28, 2001
8:18 PM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> VJ lube</div>
O.K. folks,
<br> I spent some time tonight making one incredible
mess making this
<br>witches brew we call VJ-Lube. Could someone post the most common uses
<br>for this goop? I think I made more than enough to last for a room full
<br>of techs. BTW, how did this stuff get it's name anyway?
<p>--<font size=-1>I as well one night made enough VJ lube to last the
rest of my career. It's named for Vick Jackson, a technician who
was supposedly well-known in the 70's & 80's --maybe he's still out
there. It wasn't all that messy. First you melt Vaseline in
a sauce pan, then saturate it with (unscented) talc and add lanolin --
I have the proportions somewhere but it would take me a while to find.
When well mixed, you let it cool and stuff it into film cans or other small
portable containers. I think it works great and a little dab'll do
ya -- no need to glop it on. I use it on the bushings for damper
lifter rods, keyframe guide pins, dags, grand action return springs, under
the glide bolts, on any trapwork springs, the tops of bottoms of pedal
rods, the pivot pins of pedals, sometimes on areas of "polyester squeak"
(two polished surfaces against each other), lid hinge pins that are tight,
almost anything that squeaks, but not on keypins, center pins, or action
springs (I usually polish the spring and use a pencil in the slot there).
Also not to lube the whole keybed for action shift -- there I vacuum first
and sparingly apply and rub-in unscented talc, just under the front and
back rails, with a small dab of VJ under the glide bolts, or sometimes
graphite or teflon powder. Squeaky key bushings where the pin is
wearing felt down to the glue or wood get powdered teflon (temporarily,
until they can be rebushed), since VJ would be a bit heavy or thick for
keypins. Squeaky spoons also get powdered teflon. I've used
VJ on the glides or channels for sliding fallboards, as a temporary silencer
of squeaky pedal lyres, lyre braces, and also on screws to make them go
in easier, if I don't have Door-Ease or beeswax on hand.</font><font size=-1>
Sometime in the late 70's, many manufacturers went from quality wood screws
to those thin, sharp-threaded, sharp-pointed, trumpet head Phillips ones
that look like drywall screws, and they ran them in with power drivers
and no lube. Sometimes these are hell and probably wrist-damaging
to get out. I always put VJ lube on them before putting 'em back
in.</font><font size=-1> I'd guess one film can lasts
me from 3 to 5 years (?). Sincerely, David Nereson</font></blockquote>
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