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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi John,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Goose Juice and a little heat from a =
solder iron or
your key bushing iron if you have one.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=Pianofxrguy@AOL.COM
href="mailto:Pianofxrguy@AOL.COM">Pianofxrguy@AOL.COM</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, August 21, =
2002 7:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> frozen adjustment =
screws</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">I have a customer with a Chickering grand that I =
think is
well over a hundred years old. (The action brackets are wooden.) It =
may never
have had the action regulated. I broke the first two adj. screws I =
attempted
to turn, put a few drops of Protek CLP on and tried again in a week. =
They were
still not budging. It seems like this was discussed on the list some =
time ago,
but I couldn't find the right search parameters in the search engine. =
Does
anybody have an idea of what to drip, spray, inject into the wood to =
allow
movement of the screws and, ultimately, regulation of the action? Or,
alternatively, the proper search terms for the =
archives?<BR>Thanks,<BR>John
Stroup<BR>South Bend, Ind.</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>