action part cleaning

[Allen Wright]

John,

What's the solution of oxalic acid you mention below (how saturated?)  
and where does one find this stuff? This looks like a good way to  
clean old parts....

I enjoyed your damper article - thanks for sharing that.

Best regards,

Allen Wright
London, UK


On Jun 4, 2008, at 11:14 PM, John Delacour wrote:

> At 21:53 +0100 4/6/08, David Boyce wrote:
>
>> ...There are precious few rebuilders of the calibre of our august  
>> JD of this list.
>
> And here was me thinking I was only beginning June!  But then it's  
> a long long while from May to September and I'm nearer October...
>
>>  And those that there are, are not substantial employers and  
>> trainers of others. It is not economically possible for them to  
>> be. So the number of training places available with good  
>> rebuilders in the UK is vanishingly small.
>
> As a matter of fact I'm seriously considering taking on an  
> apprentice who really wants to learn the trade thoroughly and stick  
> at it.  In fact there are very few restorers in England of any  
> quality and what people learn at the few schools there are, or have  
> been, is very superficial.
>
> I had a girl (30!) down from London last week for three days, who  
> works with some colleages of mine there for whom I do a bit of  
> work, and she's coming again in July, when we'll talk a bit more  
> about the long term, but I don't know yet how committed she is.   
> There's so much to learn and it's no trade for the part-timer, let  
> alone the botcher.
>
> Alicia is welcome to visit us when she's in England.
>
> Here's an article I've just uploaded showing upright damper  
> recovering:
>
> <http://pianomaker.co.uk/technical/upright_dampers/>
>
> JD
>
>
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