Pewter Kimball hinges?

[Richard Anderson]

Thanks for the reply Wim. These were very soft and they polished like brass,
but no pits. Were your zinc ones soft?

Richard Anderson

> From: Wimblees@AOL.COM
> Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:46:05 EST
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Pewter Kimball hinges?
> 
> In a message dated 2/1/00 5:13:11 PM !!!First Boot!!!, tknostf@foxvalley.net
> writes:
> 
> << I just finished blasting the hardware on a 1916 Kimball grand. It was all
> solid brass except for the continuous hinges. They are silver and non
> magnetic (the hinge rod is brass). I don't think they were plated although
> it's hard to tell because the piano had been painted (white with gold
> accents and a portrait of George Washington, or is it Martha - see link
> below). What metal do suppose this is?
> 
> Richard Anderson
>>> 
> 
> 
> The hinge most likely is made out of zinc. I brought a couple of hinges like
> that to my plater. He brass plated it, but it did not look good. It comes out
> pitted.
> 
> Wim
>