[CAUT] S&S Key Bushings

[Chris Solliday]

btw that "list" is Susan Graham's with a little help form her friends at the
back of the new edition of Steve Brady's book "Field Guide to Piano Repairs"
published by PTG.
Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <ricb at pianostemmer.no>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 3:12 AM
Subject: [CAUT] S&S Key Bushings


> Lots of methods here... thats to be sure.  Chris mentioned something in
> Esberg about a list compiled by one of our members that deals with
> different kinds of lubricants... which ones do and dont go well
> together.  The S&S bushing thing was the subject matter.
>
> For myself, I like to stick first and formost to cleaned and polished
> pins and a bit of telfon powder brushed into the bushings. This seems to
> work for just about any kind of bushing around and stays slick as grease
> going through a goose for several years.  I use something akin to a pipe
> cleaner to apply. I used to use liquid lubricants  like prolube but
> found a couple pianos that started getting sticky after a while. Seems
> to be something that reacts to some bushing material.  One never really
> knows whats been done before so teflon in powder form seems the best bet
> to me. Doesn't really have a chance to react with anything else.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
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