Palm Nailer tuning pin tip (Baldwin) - how to have it covered.

[Isaac OLEG]

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Hello,

For those of you that use the special tip (originally made for Baldwin) with
a Palm Nailer, you have may be try to glue some cardboard, or some leather
at the extremity, to be cautious with the gold paint of the frame when
stringing (while I've noticed the tip is in fact not marring the finish
really, if you go quiet while "nailing").

I've used a piece of tubular thermo retractile material, used for
electricity wiring isolation. The tube is thick at first, I make a kind of
collar around the Nailer tip, and warm the tube.

Then it takes a perfect fit around the edges of the metal tip, then, I cut
the part of it which is in the apertures that allow the tool to be used
around a string coil, and that's it, the end of my tip are now plastic
covered, and less susceptible to mar my nice piano plate.

I may say here that Danair people have been very efficient and helpful,
while delivering me the Nailer, then sending me for free some goodies to use
it more efficiently. I have appreciate a lot their tool and the way they
make business.


Best regards to all.

Isaac OLEG

Entretien et reparation de pianos.

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  De : caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]De la part de
Richard Brekne
  Envoye : jeudi 23 janvier 2003 09:03
  A : College and University Technicians
  Objet : Re: Richard, Isaac & euro-gunk



  Mark Cramer wrote:

    I'm currently 'r&r'-ing the wips for an August-Forster action. The
spring
    slots have an amber-colored, paste-like friction treatment which has
left a
    greenish coating on the springs.

  Never did figure out what that stuff was. But you see it a lot on Eastern
European pianos. I dont know how many Forster uprights I've had to repin.
Zimmermans also but to a lesser degree. I have even seen this stuff show up
in Tzech pianos. Not much to do if it gets sticky but to either re-flange
(use wood instead of that plastic stuff they come with) or clean and repin
the bushings.


    Wait, it's not as bad as you think. The green stuff wipes off easily,
the
    springs are shiny and smooth, and slip freely within the groove. This
action
    is eighty-years old, though it looks brand new.

  I think the green you see is standard green gunk... on springs lubricated
with vasiline or some such creative solution. Clean and use a better
lubricant me thinks.

    I see no reason to remove the gunk and attempt to replace it with
something
    else. I'd just like to know what it is, and if indeed there are any
concerns
    leaving it behind.

  That amber stuff usually ends up causing the action to frezze up.  My only
guess is that it is left over lubricant of some sort.


    I'm sure those of you working with European instruments will have an
answer,
    especially Richard or Isaac.


  Cheers
  RicB
  --
  Richard Brekne
  RPT, N.P.T.F.
  UiB, Bergen, Norway
  mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
  http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html


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