You could clean with your elixir of choice and then follow up with spray brake cleaner. That would clean up the holes too. Dont spray inside though. Greg Newell Greg's Piano Forté www.gregspianoforte.com 216-226-3791 (office) 216-470-8634 (mobile) From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of tannertuner Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 3:33 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] Vertigris on Action Rail Hi William, Thanks. Yeah, I was thinking cleaner would gunk up the holes, but worried at the same time that if I didn't use something that would kill it all, it could feed on the new parts and grow back. You guys have helped diminish that concern. I don't know if I want to spray with lacquer. I've pulled some wips off of rails that were sprayed with some kind of gold lacquer and they were stuck good. That makes travelling a pain. Besides, the sheen of the rails isn't going to be all that important. The brackets don't look very nice and won't clean up, so... Thanks, Jeff --- On Fri, 7/30/10, William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> wrote: From: William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Vertigris on Action Rail To: caut at ptg.org Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 12:38 PM Jeff, I've used a green scotch-brite pad. It leaves a satin rather than polished finish, but that's OK in my book. Then Flitz if you like. I've pretty much stopped using cleaners for these rails as I don't care for the gunk in all the screw holes. It's not really the end of the world, just my preference. Scotch brite is fast and thorough. Then give it a quick coat of Brass-Lacquer to prevent tarnish. When you are cleaning look very closely for cracks in the brass rail. More often than not, they are there. William R. Monroe On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM, tannertuner <tannertuner at bellsouth.net <http://us.mc1806.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=tannertuner@bellsouth.net> > wrote: Hi all, What's the best way to clean vertigris off the wippen rail of an old Steinway? Thanks, Jeff -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100730/fa74811e/attachment.htm>
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