talcum powder!!!

[Kevin E. Ramsey]

    Sorry Tom, water and flour make paste, but talcum and CLP make mush, the
CLP "plates" the metal, the "mush" won't stick to the plated metal, dries,
and you're fine.
    Don't worry so much.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: RE: talcum powder!!!


>
> In a message dated 8/31/01 9:10:58 AM, doepke@fwi.com writes:
>
> << I have found some white powdery substance in side of a Gulbranson. It
was
>
> especially prevalent in the tenor/high tenor area on the pressure bar.  Is
>
> that a type of rust or something?  It almost looks like talcum powder but
>
> with a greenish tint to it.  Any ideas...anyone? >>
>
> This looks like it was intentionally applied to that wooden bar (someone
tell
> me what to call this thing!) that is over the capstans. It has little
holes
> with red felt bushings which the stickers protrude through.  Each hole has
> some white powder (which smells and looks like talcum) dusted in and
around
> it.  I don't specifically see any white powder anywhere else, but I
theorized
> that it could have gotten into the hammer butt flange bushings making them
> sluggish.
>
> I have used Protek CLP in eliminating sluggish flanges with great success,
> but my specific concern was whether the talcum powder (if it IS talcum
> powder) in combination with CLP might make things worse!  (After all, if
you
> can mix water and flour and get paste, it's possible in my mind that CLP
plus
> talcum powder could make portland cement!)
>
> Tom Sivak