Does DamppChaser recommend a string cover with installation? In other words do they think using a DamppChaser without a string cover is like air conditioning with the windows open? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano at bellsouth.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 3/27/2006 3:32:32 AM Subject: Re: Protecting plain wire from rust >Only if the felt string cover is installed in addition to the humidity >control system can you be completely assured of no rust development. Having >the dampp chaser system with no felt cover is like having a good air >conditioning system with the windows open. >Tom Servinsky >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> >To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> >Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:57 PM >Subject: Re: Protecting plain wire from rust >> IMHO, the strings in a piano equipped with a properly operating DC system >> will not develope rust. Have you monitored the RH of the piano interior >> (is this an upright)? >> >> Terry Farrell >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> I have a customer with a 1919 Hazelton Bros. piano that I service >>> regularly >>> that has rusty strings. The piano has had a DC in it for years. I >>> recently >>> replaced it as the tank for the old one literally fell out of the piano. >>> Nevertheless, and in spite of the fact that the DC is functionally >>> correctly >>> and is properly maintained, the strings continue to show increasing signs >>> of >>> rust. Do you think that employing your Vaseline treatment to these >>> strings >>> at this late stage might be beneficial? If yes, how would you go about >>> applying this treatment to strings already in the piano? >>> >>> -- Geoff Sykes >>> -- Assoc. Los Angeles >> >> >>
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