Tuners--Broken Pins

[Jon Page]

I can't imagine electroplating on a plate. It would have to be taken down to
the metal and sanded smooth. The only other method using electricity which I
know of is powder coating (and this requires baking at high temps.)
Is the ol' translation thing going on here?
Jon Page
Cape Cod. Mass
jpage@capecod.net
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At 09:39 PM 1/5/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi Newton,
>
>First let me give you a little history of why we chose electroplate.
>The Company I used to work for had a separate polishing Department and
>enclosed spray booths.  That Company closed,  I went self-employed and a
>new Company was set up in a new building with the old Management.
>
>I worked for this Company for two days a week.  Now they had an open
>plan workshop with one of the new type of extraction units for spray
>booths.  Anyone who has worked near a spray polisher,   knows no matter
>how good the extraction system is, the celleouse over spray settles
>everywhere.  So you can imagine what happened when they sprayed the gold
>celleuose on to the frames.   Little gold spettles appeared everywhere.
>Not much cop,  if you have just spent a couple of hours matching up
>ivories and polishing them to find out the following day little gold
>spettles stuck to your ivories:-(( well upset.
>
>So we opt for the electroplating, this cost us a hundred and twenty
>pounds,  this included the Company picking up and re-delivering the
>frames or plates as you call them.  The finish is quite impressive and
>extremely hard wearing,   I would difinitely reccommend it for very
>badly chipped and marked frames as the electroplating fills these up to
>a smooth shiny car show room finish.
>
>However, (there is always a however in life) we did leave the Agraphs in
>the first frame, that we did.   They looked impressive but sadly the
>piano sounded crap.  We put it down to the electroplating altering the
>dimentions of the bearing points within the agraph.  So the next frame
>the electroplated without the Agraphs with instructions to the Company
>to ensure that the threads of the agraph holes should not be plated.
>How they did this I'm not so sure but they did comply.  I personally
>prefer shiny brass agraphs myself,  even now whenI re-string a piano,
>the last one just been before Christmas with agraphs. I removed them all
>clean them with a soft brass brush and gently buffed them up on the
>buffing wheel.
>
>At present, I personally am using aerosole cans with the colour "Ford
>Arizona Gold metalic",  as all of the frames I tend to do come across
>these days are not too badly damaged,  they only need freshening up, I
>put three coats on,  cutting back on each coat and finally T-cutting to
>bring up that high gloss shine.
>
>Hope I haven't bored you to death.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Barrie.
>
>
>In article <9701051545.ZM8700@niflheim.rutgers.edu>, Newton Hunt
><nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu> writes
>>Hey, Barry,
>>       What would be wrong about gold plating agraffes?  How much does gold
>>plaing a plate cost?  Tell us more!
>>               Newton
>>               nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu
>>
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Jon Page
Cape Cod. Mass
jpage@capecod.net
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