Hi Pam, The hammers and backcheck(buckskin at least..maybe) and key end felt will need to be replaced.. Also look at the flanges for excessive wear/wax on the knuckles, etc. Careful inspection of action centers should be manditory...if wax got into the wippen flanges, jack flanges, etc. they'll have to be re-bushed. Hopefully you can razorblade most of that stuff off. Better than the Kawai model 650 a few years ago that had a candle display fall over and start a fire...during Easter service!! It ended up me replacing the hammers, strings, dampers, and shanks/flanges. A real mess...(except for my pay-check, that is <g>) A real "ring of fire" Good luck! Paul "Pam Bero" <itune4you at hotmail.com> Sent by: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 02/26/2009 12:32 PM Please respond to pianotech at ptg.org To <pianotech at ptg.org> cc Subject [pianotech] wax in grand action Just picked up an action from a 1987 Baldwin R which has had a large pillar candle melted down into the action. Just looking to find out if anyone has dealt with anything like this before. The hammers and backchecks got the worst of it, but the back of the keys and the felt under the keys are also affected. My plan is to scrape as much wax off as possible and see if sanding the keys will clean them up sufficiently. It looks to me like the hammers and backchecks will have to be replaced, but thought I’d see if anyone has any ideas. Thank you in advance for any advice. Pam Bero Appleton, WI Associate member -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090226/02906dd7/attachment.html>
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