Silicone spray should not be allowed any closer than 300 years of a piano. Silicone is NOT a lubricant, it is a strain reliever, and the stuff acts like BBs dropped from the ceiling onto a concrete floor. The stuff goes EVERYWHERE. I know it has been used, inappropriately, for years bu the stuff causes fish eye when spraying and if it gets into the pin block, which it will, the pins will not stay where put. Instead use a dry teflon lubricating spray, please. Newton (off the wagon now) Allen Wright wrote: > > Dave, > > We're also using nails about that size here - I just measured one of our > nail "cauls", in fact, and it's .104". We've been just lubricating the nails > with silicon spray before we insert them, and it works pretty well, but I > agree that they seem to come back in size a little after removed. I like > Eric's idea for the heating tool (and the others). > > Allen Wright > Oberlin
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