Agraffe lubing??

[pianolover 88]

Anybody use McLube in "liquid" form? I am using it with great success in 
place of Protek CLP, which WILL evaporate in the bottle in time!

Terry Peterson
Precision Piano Service
Torrance, CA


>From: jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Agraffe lubing??
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:36:38 -0500
>
>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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