Greasing pedal springs ?

[Alison]

Can I use copper grease on the pedal springs or should I get the colourless grease, actually I might have some of that too in the garage. A spring just broke (with an ear splitting noise of metal fatigue) so I might as well grease the others whilst I’m at it. Thanks Alison

• This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Alison.

[carl-swanson]

Don’t grease the pedal springs. Use a heavy duty motor oil, like a motor oil. You want a lubricant that will creep around to places you can’t reach with grease. And if your harp has a glob of grease on the pedal fulcrum, where the end of the steel pedal bar is anchored to that bronze bracket, then wipe as much of the grease off as you can and replace it with oil, for the same reason as mentioned above. Putting grease on that pedal fulcrum is one of the more idiotic ideas that one of the major companies has been doing for years. Grease can’t creep into the area where steel is moving against steel. So in fact, with grease on it, there is in fact no lubrication at all.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by carl-swanson.

[Gina Paulin]

Thanks!

[William Y]

I did this recently (had a squeak on the F pedal from sharp to natural, as well as a slight noise on the D pedal at times), and had followed Steve Moss’s Youtube video as far as how to do it (I used the type of grease from McMaster he recommends on his video; hadn’t read Carl’s note about the oil at the time, though I have seen oil used for this in the past, and the logic makes sense; will consider that in the future). For what it’s worth, the grease “worked”, at least in terms of resolving the noises I was hearing in the short term.

By the way, regardless of the type of lubricant you use, that video, as well as Peter Wiley’s video on disconnecting / connecting pedal springs were both very useful to me in terms of the basic process.

[balfour-knight]

I would use heavy-duty silicone lubricant.

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