Reply To: Hohner Melodica Professional restoration

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Clep
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Quick update — got the veneer glued in place:


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I spent a long time tracing the pattern of reed chambers and creating a stencil and transferring that pattern to the underside of the veneer so I could limit the glue to the correct spots, and then realized it was a waste of time because the glue was hard to precisely control, so I just spread glue over the entire surface.

Tomorrow I hope to reassemble and seal it.

Does anyone have any tips on replacing the tiny white plastic spacers that stand on the end of the key guides that break off? Talking about these things (blurry pic):

…when I work on the Piano 36’s, I just use daubs of hot glue that I shape appropriately. Works well, but they can have a little bit of friction with the keys, and sometimes they fall off, etc.

I was thinking of winding fine copper wire around the posts until the right size, and then touching them with a bit of solder to hold them together.

Epoxy seems like it would be too difficult to control (i.e. it would run down the post pretty easily.)

Any other brainstorms?

Thanks!

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