Replacement for Zephyr skin?

[Dale R Fox]

Hi John and Ron N.
	as Ron states you can use thin  (.010"  prefered) in place of zephyr
skin.  You can either replace the bleeds OR you can seal the new pouches
with rubber cement diluted with naptha.  About 2 or 3 to 1,    Naptha to
cement.  Use a finger to apply and don't forget the edges above the glue
joint.   Be sure the glue has dried first :-)

Dale Fox

On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:19:54 -0500 Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
writes:
> >Hi List,
> >I was wondering, if I could replace the Zephyr skin pouches with 
> anything
> >else.
> >I was thinking of the thin kangaroo skin.
> >It is just a normal, old pumping player.
> >Thank you.
> >Regards,
> >John M. Ross
> 
> 
> Hi John,
> This is old news, I know, but a recent round trip cross country 
> migration
> has put me a tad more behind the times than usual. Also, you didn't 
> get any
> responses that I noticed among the 625 messages I downloaded and 
> skimmed
> last night, so I guess it's all right. 
> 
> Most "normal" old players had leather pouches, so you ought to be 
> able to
> get away with the substitution. If the Zephyr skin was original
> installation, the bleed will be too big for the more porous leather 
> and you
> should change them too. I've always used the thin tan pneumatic 
> leather
> from Schaff or APSCO with little problem. The skins aren't uniform 
> in
> thickness, so you will want to use the thinner areas for small 
> primary
> pouches, and the thicker (up to a point) for large secondaries. Some 
> of it
> will be too thick, even in the "thin" category, for anything but big 
> cut
> out pouches. 
> 
> Who's selling kangaroo pouch leather, and actually has it in stock? 
> Roo
> hide is pretty up-town stuff in the thicker flavors and I'd like to 
> try the
> pouch leather.
> 
> Also, you are replacing the valve leather, re-hinging and recovering 
> all
> bellows and pneumatics, hoses, tubing, flap valves, gaskets, leather 
> nuts,
> and rebuilding the piano too... right?
> 
>   
> Ron N

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