Phillips screws in an antique
By Randy Hayno
The ugliest thing you will ever see in an antique anything is a phillips screw. A player piano with a phillips screw in it is a screwed up player piano. Unless it was built in the 1970's. If it was it's not worth anything anyway. The best thing to do when restoring antiques is to buff off the rust if possible or find new blued steel screws to replace the old ones. Old hardware stores are good sources for these. After buffing the original screws you can reblue them with heat or paint them with tuning pin blue or the easy thing to do is get yourself a can of blue machinist's layout fluid and spray them. They will look like new old after that. I sure hope the guy who recommended changing all the screws to phillips does not work on anything of value like an orchestrian or music box. Imagine opening up a fine swiss music box and seeing shiny modern phillips screws staring out at you. YUK.
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