Hi Phil, The steam gets excellent and lasting results on the Renner hammers, the top octave is often heavily juiced. Best method for this, that I have found, is an acetone flush to drive the hardener further down the hammer. Several applications is often needed. In the field, I will soak the juiced hammers and needle whilst they are still wet. If you are dealing with an older Baldwin with Baldwin hammers, that is a different story. Many were juiced with key top type hardner's. In this case several acetone flushes are in order to build some tone into them. Regards Roger At 05:13 PM 8/3/02 -0400, you wrote: >Mike Bratcher said: > > > I haven't had good success with steaming on Baldwin hammers. Especially >in > > the top octave. I have worked on mostly Baldwins for the past 9 years. > >..and me for 6 with decent results..different steams for different folks i >guess.. > >-Phil Bondi (Fl.) >tito@philbondi.com Roger
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