Lube Problems

[Larry J. Messerly]

Another successful short term remidy (in some instances years) is rubbing
the felt with a carpenter pencil lead.  It fits in the slot real nice
once you have lifted the key bushing above the ballance rail pin.

Larry

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:08:50 EST BobDavis88@AOL.COM writes:
> Roger Jolly writes:
> 
> >  A quick and easy tempory fix [for squeaking balance rail key 
> bushings] is 
> to use an awl and spring the
> >  balance rail pin forward and out of the cup.  
> 
> Hi, Roger, 
> Yes, good idea, thanks. I have also used Teflon powder to get by 
> until the 
> next tuning. In any case I mark the key w.chalk and enter the 
> problem into my 
> customer notes so I can follow its progress.
> Bob Davis