was sluggish butts/ now verdigris

[Carl Meyer]

Most things in life are temporary.  That's why I've always said that life is a moving target.  That's why rebuilding is only temporary.  Seventy five years down the road it'll need it again.  

To put it in perspective:  You eat a Chinese dinner and you're hungry again in a hour.  Eat an Italian dinner and in 4-5 days you're hungry again.  Everything is relative to everything else.
Bummer, isn't it?  Oh, well?

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:15 PM
Subject: was sluggish butts/ now verdigris


> Alot has been said about verdigris on this list and mostly in reference to 
> Steinways, it seems.  Since I have only one Steinway owner among my customers 
> (and it's a console) I haven't really followed those threads.  (I follow the 
> Kimball and Gulbransen threads from beginning to end!)  
> 
> Many have implied that the sluggish butts I have on my hands (boy, that 
> doesn't sound very good, does it?) may be due to verdigris.   
> 
> How can I identify verdigris?  The bushing is red, not discolored.  The pin, 
> when removed, does have a blackish ring where it was in contact with the 
> bushing.  The new pin doesn't move any freer than the old pin.  CLP made 
> little or no difference.
> 
> Ron Koval has offered to lend me a set of reamers, but if it's verdigris, 
> will reaming help?  And will reaming the sluggish butts free them up 
> indefinitely?  I get the impression that the liquid solutions are only 
> temporary, and I would prefer a permanent solution to this problem.  (And all 
> my other ones, too.) 
> 
> Tom Sivak
> 
>