Center Pin Goop

[David Ilvedson]

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what I like is the close up of the center pin.   How did you do=
 that?
David I.







Original message
From: Terry 
To: Pianotech 
Received: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:25:51 -0500
Subject: Re: Center Pin Goop


Several well-intended "helpful" responses follow:
 
> >Great picture, Terry!   My guess is the centers were treated=
 with barbeque 
> >sauce.
> >
> >(Always glad to be helpful.)> 
> 
> By golly, I think you're right! Maybe an Alka-Seltzer flush is=
 in order.

> On a more sherioush note ... I wonder if someone "lubed" those=
 centers with
> something that drew dust, gathered goo, magnetized mucous,=
 invited ich,
> captured crud, collected crap, and generally glommed onto globs=
 of gluey
> gunk. 
 
I've tried all these wonderful suggestions (I do have a sense of=
 humor and enjoy these clever responses - especially when they=
 are balanced with something useful  ;-). But my center pins=
 still look like the photo below:
 

 
Stuff wipes off with a bit of effort and yields a nice clean=
 shiny center pin - I don't think the pins are corroding or=
 loosing their plating (like I've heard can happen on some=
 Samicks). 
 
So, my questions remain as follows:
 
- What is this stuff?
 
- If I simply repin, can I not presume that the goop will come=
 back (I suppose it would be a good thing to ream up a pin size=
 or two)?
 
- Do I need to rebush (like the US is doing today - oh, no I=
 couldn't do that!)?
 
- If I need to repin and rebush all the jacks and wip levers,=
 seems to me I'm already pretty close to the point where it would=
 be cheaper to just install new wippens - what say yee?
 
Thanks for any CONSTRUCTIVE input.   ;-)
 
Terry Farrell


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