simple useful tip !

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Oleg,
That water trick might also help when applying hot hide glue?
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac OLEG" <oleg-i@wanadoo.fr>
To: "Gordon Holley" <gholley@hi-techhousing.com>; "Pianotech"
<pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:35 PM
Subject: RE: simple useful tip !


> 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-----
> > > > De : pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
> > > > [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]De la
> > > > part de Clyde Hollinger
> > > > Envoye : jeudi 10 juillet 2003 13:01
> > > > A : Pianotech
> > > > Objet : Re: OT -- Telemarketing
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stephen,
> > > >
> > > > I didn't know "virtually NO popups" means one or two a month.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Clyde
> > > >
> > > > Stephen Airy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I can also testify to the virtues of Mozilla.  I am using
> > > > it, and I get
> > > > > virtually NO popups, or maybe one or two a month.
> > > >
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