On Mar 12, 2009, at 11:48 AM, BobDavis88 at aol.com wrote: > Fred, > > Yup. We've refinished lots of pianos, and the ones that gave us the > most fisheye problems were the ones whose owners consistently used > Pledge. We've tried wiping them down both before and after stripping > with a variety of solvents, with no luck. It gets through > microcracks in the old finish, and is REALLY persistent. We can > counter it with Fisheye Flowout (silicone oil), but it always makes > me uneasy. > > Bob Davis Yes, I know about that problem. What I am wondering is whether it actually damages the original finish, using the silicone product to polish it. And, if so, how. When I did refinishing, I just went with the additive. That was the only way I could get a good, smooth finish. I always wondered what would happen to the next poor fool who refinished the same instrument, but I guess I'll never know - presumably they'll have to use the same, or maybe alternate finishes don't/won't have the problem. Actually, sometimes the worst fisheyes I ran into were sharps, so that I just decided the best procedure was to test one, and if they were bad I'd replace the set rather than refinish. Come to think of it, that's because I'd just use a spray can for sharps (rather than dirty up the spray gun), and didn't have the option of the additive. Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090312/d8919845/attachment.html>
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