simple useful tip !

[Isaac OLEG]

Hi Gordon,
We have to make this on some ancient French pianos (or German too)
where the rollers are more knuckles, or for some vertical.

I usually send the job to be done elsewhere, in Paris or in Germany,
and the water trick is what they use, indeed that allow to tense
easely leather or felt, then the gluing is easy.

I believe the leather can be thinned in a little drum sander with a
thickness guide, aint a difficult setup but you need a bench drill
press or something to hold the drum on a board (did not do that myself
actually)



If the parts can have new rollers, of course Ill go that way (with
shanks as well.
BTW are the US Steinway rollers difficult to remove, with the leather
glued at the base on the shank ?

When learning the job, every part was refurbished, new felts, new
centers, often new leathers.
These days we take new parts, the result is better most often !

Greetings.

Isaac OLEG

Entretien et reparation de pianos.

PianoTech
17 rue de Choisy
94400 VITRY sur SEINE
FRANCE
tel : 033 01 47 18 06 98
fax : 033 01 47 18 06 90
cell: 06 60 42 58 77

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Gordon Holley [mailto:gholley@hi-techhousing.com]
> Envoye : jeudi 10 juillet 2003 23:46
> A : oleg-i@wanadoo.fr; Pianotech
> Objet : Re: simple useful tip !
>
>
> Now you tell me.  I just finished putting new buckskin on
> 88 Kimball
> style knuckles, for an old Farrand Grand.  And that wasn't any fun
> either.  The sheet of buckskin had a variance in thickness
> enough to
> make some of the knuckles big fat and ugly.  Ended up replacing the
> first buckskin on 2 dozen knuckles with a second try.
> Joe Garrett tells me that he has a method of leveling out the
> thickness of the sheet, don't have the details on the process.
> I do know one thing, I'll never replace buckskin on knuckles again,
> I'll replace the shanks/knuckles and new hammers.  Yes, I
> know there
> is somewhat a difference in the costs between the two.
> I spent more time on it and I'm still not satisfied with
> the results.
>  The new knuckles made the regulation a nightmare.
> Another vodka tonic please.
> Regards, Gordon Holley
> Associate Member, Indiana Chapter 467
> Goshen, Indiana
> On 10 Jul 2003 at 14:34, Isaac OLEG wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> >
> > I can resist giving you the little tip there.
> >
> > For the ones that regularely glue new leather on
> backchecks, new felt
> > on whippens, may be new leather or knuckles/roller sometime, the
> > magician trick is to use a drop of water on the
> felt/leather, so you
> > can glue easely with a little tension, then when the glue
> sets and the
> > part get dry the tensionning became perfect.
> >
> > I will offer soon little bottles of that water for a very
> reasonnable
> > price.
> >
> > More than useful, an old method rediscovered !
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> >
> > Isaac OLEG
> >
> > Entretien et reparation de pianos.
> >
> > PianoTech
> > 17 rue de Choisy
> > 94400 VITRY sur SEINE
> > FRANCE
> > tel : 033 01 47 18 06 98
> > fax : 033 01 47 18 06 90
> > cell: 06 60 42 58 77
> >
> > > -----Message d'origine-----
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