<html> <font size=3>At 11:40 AM 01/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:<br> >  New fasteners are not that great of an expense, but are not usually <br> >needfull from a structural point of view, in my opinion.  Whether or not <br> >cleaning/polishing/buffing old fasteners is an economical thing to do <br> >time/dollar wise is a totally different consideration though, huh?<br> >My view.<br> >Jim Bryant (FL)<br> ><br> > <br> <br> For the price of new nickle plated screws and bolts it is not worth the effort<br> to clean and spray the old ones. The finished product looks much, much<br> better with all new nickle plated screws & bolts. I polish the nose bolts and<br> have not needed to replace the duplex rises yet.<br> <br> Only when the fasteners are out of the ordinary will I recondition.<br> <br> <br> </font><br> <div>Jon Page,   piano technician</div> <div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div> <div><a href="mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net</a></div> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </html>