Ed, OK, I'm interested. How did you make your steamer? Is it in the archives somewhere? If so, I'll search there. Thanks, JF On 5/19/07, A440A at aol.com <A440A at aol.com> wrote: > John writes: > << > No need to make 88 wedges. I'm leary of using a dampened cloth with an iron > or live steam because with my luck, it would lift the key buttons and ivory. > >> > > I have used live steam for the last 25 years and I have never had a key > button lift or an ivory come loose. I use a home-made steamer that takes > about 6 seconds per mortise. The advantages of steam are that it doesn't stain > the keybuttons, resizes the balance rail holes, is FAST, cheap, and will undo > those white glue bushings from the 1960's as fast as any other kind. It > also makes cleaning the gunk off the sides of the accidentals easy. > Regards, > > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> See what's free at > http://www.aol.com.</HTML> >
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