Agraffe lubing??

[jolly roger]

Hi John,
             Just checked the bottle.  <G>  It's Prolube Polymer, it bonds
better than the CLP product.  I have used the CLP in a pinch with similar
resuts.  But I wonder about longevity.   The only Mason I tried it on, it
worked suprisingly well.  As others have mentioned.  Pay some attention to
the bearing felt.
One cautionary note.  Dry the strings after application with paper towel,
don't want that stuff travelling to the damper felt, or tuning pins.
Careful does it. Lowering the tension immediately after application, then
pull to pitch, seems to work wonders.
Regards Roger



At 12:12 PM 6/29/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Roger:  Which Protek product are you referring to??  I can't really tell
>as you said "one drip" - which makes it soul like Protek CLP, but you
>might be referring to Protek MPL - their "heavier" lube.
>fwiw I have been to a bulk lubricant distributor where I was given a
>sample of a lube called Aeroshell #6 - an aviation lube.  This stuff is
>used between brass and steel parts (control cables for example) in
>aircraft and is guaranteed not to cause any problems between the two
>metals.  I am bringing this up as I have a M&H "A" that has agraffes that
>are badly worn resulting in poor string rendering.  My idea was the same
>as you have posted - placing a TINY bit on the top of the wire segment
>that is between the tuning pin and the agraffe - as close as possible to
>the agraffe - loosen the wire to allow the wire to carry the lube into
>the agraffe, then pull it back up to pitch.  Needless to say, it will
>take very little lube to do this - assuming that it works.  My mind tells
>me it should work, but I've been known to make more than a few thousand
>errors in judgement in my life. :-(
>
>John R. Fortiner
>Billings, MT.
>
>On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:07:27 -0500 jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
>writes:
>
>> Hi Don,
>>              One drip of protec applied with a tooth pick on each of 
>> the
>> agraffe holes will solve the rendering hassles. Drop the tension a 
>> little
>> before raising, and it will tune just like any other piano.
>> Regards Roger
>> 
>> 
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