[pianotech] tape residue

[wjstuner at juno.com]

Barb,  I've had good luck with a buffing wheel from Farm & Fleet and the Dico compound called Plastic at removing/polishing ivorine.  Maybe a little 0000 steel wool lightly first would get the clumps off and then the wheel.
Filling the tops even with the fronts can work if not chipped behind the front plane.  You can smooth it out with the buffing wheel and it should look good.
Much luck with a BR spinet.  Make sure the rest of the parts are not the old plastic.  All flanges including damper levers, jacks and back checks could be crumbling.  Then there's all those false string sounds............

Bill Schlipf
Bloomington, IL

---------- Original Message ----------
From: Barbara Richmond <piano57 at comcast.net>
To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org>
Subject: [pianotech] tape residue
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:54:24 +0000 (UTC)





Howdy, 

I was having a look through the archives about removing tape goo from keytops and someone made a reference to a type of key that might get damaged by a solvent. Would that be those old celluloid keys? 

Does anybody remember what type of keytop is on a Betsy Ross spinet? I'm pretty excited to get to service one of these, I've heard so much about them (or her). ;-} 

Another question about those celluloid keytops. I have a customer with a Baldwin Monarch small upright with many--maybe all--chipped keys. She doesn't want to spring for new keytops, so I was thinking of just filing and making waterfall keys out of them. Will the celluloid file OK? 

Thanks, 

Barbara Richmond, RPT 
near Peoria, Illinois 


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