The mechanal parts are solid but noisy on my Marlen.
Should I lube all moving parts? I have tri-flow at home, will this work for lube? Or is there a better lubricant that steelers use?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
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You didn't say how old your steel was. Noisy? As in "squeeking"? Lubing will help the thing to feel smoother (and stop squeeks), but a lot of the mechanical noise in a pedal steel results from the design and from wear. When the clearances increase from hundreds of thousands of pedal and lever operations, the "clikety-clack" becomes an unavoidable tendency. A teardown and cleaning, and re-lubing with a light grease (instead of oil) will stop some of the noise, but the plain fact is that mechanical parts will wear eventually, and make more noise.