Fun polishing BR pins :-)

[Paul]

Diane
This sounds great! Thanks for this knuckle saver!!!!  Did you use a
polishing compound? Were the carpet strips a loop or cut pile? I'm guessing
the nylon alone would be abrasive enough to do the job, but I can't picture
the type of nap.

Paul Chick
----- Original Message -----
From: Diane Hofstetter <dianepianotuner@hotmail.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:16 AM
Subject: Fun polishing BR pins :-)


> A job I hate, I save up all the balance rail pin polishing for years if
> necessary until I have a new apprentice.  This time, however, there was no
> way out of it, there was no one to do it but me :-(
>
> Miracle of all miracles!  I found an easy way!  No skinned knuckles!  It
was
> actually fun!
>
> Discovered some hand-me-down carpet samples yesterday.  1/2" pile nylon
> carpet.  Cut two strips 6" x 1 1/2".  Held them back to back and
shoeshined
> between pins!  Eureka!  Beautiful! Easy! Fun!  Sometimes only used one
> strip.
>
> Carpet strips worked great to polish capstans too.  Now looking for
> something else to polish!  Will polish for food!
>
> Diane
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