applying graphite

[Clark Sprague]

Hi, Scott.  DAG (Denatured Alcohol and Graphite).  Usually applied, let dry, 
and burnished (bridge tops, top of jacks, etc.
Clark A. Sprague, RPT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Jackson" <scott at pianos.net.au>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: applying graphite


>I thought that "Dag" was the gunky graphite grease?
>
> Scott Jackson
>
>
>> Unfortunately, a lot of techs confuse dry graphite powder with the gunky
>> "graphite grease" that was used in past decades by several manufacturers
>> who smeared it all over repetition spring grooves in grands especially,
>> but also on trapwork springs and elsewhere.  Because of this gunk,
>> graphite in any form has gotten a bad rep.
>>-------------------snip-------------------<
>> For tops of dowel capstans, jacks, tops of repetition levers, etc., I
>> used to use Dag, and sometimes still do, but prefer Emralon.
>> --David Nereson, RPT
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