Of course you can also use a regular clothes iron (making sure it is not your wife's current good iron). 1100 watts of thermostatically controlled heat makes the job go lots faster. dave __________________________________________ David M. Porritt, RPT Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275 dporritt@mail.smu.edu ----- Original message ----------------------------------------> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org> Received: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 06:53:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Advice on softening rock-hard hammers, please. >David, that is how I've been doing "drastic" voicing for some time now. But >I use a soldering iron with the brass hammer iron replacing the soldering >tip. It keeps the iron hot enough for non-stop voicing. Can do basic pass of >voicing in two minutes or so. >Terry Farrell >> Or wet a cotton handkerchief or piece of old T-shirt and wring it out >so >> it's damp but not sopping. Heat up a hammer iron and when it's hot (if >you >> touch it to the damp cloth, it should go "Tssst!"), lay the damp cloth, >> folded in half, across the crowns of half a dozen hammers, then iron them, >> passing the iron back and forth over the crown maybe twice or thrice -- >move >> quickly so you can do 4 or 5 hammers before the iron cools down too much. >> Using a different area of the damp cloth, move up to the next few hammers, >> re-heat the iron, and do them. The time-consuming part is continually >> re-heating the iron. Maybe they make electric ones that stay hot. >> --David Nereson, RPT >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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