was CA tips, now: wire container

[David ilvedson]

> From:          AKarab@aol.com
> Date:          Thu, 5 Jun 1997 00:51:58 -0400 (EDT)
> To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject:       was CA tips, now: wire container
> Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org

Audrey,

I use those silica bags from new pianos in my string box.  It 
seems to help although I don't really know when to change them?!




> Rob Stuart-Vail wrote:
> 
> >>I also found a hermetically sealed (large) box that holds all the sizes of 
> >>wire I need to restring a piano, with a set of standard bass strings, too.
>  It 
> >>was a case for a bomb sight (got it from a surplus house long ago).
> 
> I've wondered about air-tight porting of piano wire.  I considered for a
> while a canoe-outing type of  pellican tub.  Then I wondered if there would
> be more condensation, spelled r-u-s-t, caused by the slower change in
> temperature inside the container
> and lack of exchange of water vapor content with the air outside it.  I leave
> these things out in the car overnight, a luxury I did not have in Chicago,
> but it rarely gets below freezing or above 80, so its not much of an issue
> for general supplies.
> 
> Thoughts on condensation coalescing?  
> 
> Audrey Karabinus,  Seattle
> 
> 
ilvey
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@a.crl.com