Industrial Chemists, Please?

[John R Fortiner]

Bill:  Although I am NOT a chemist, I do know that Cationics are just a
family of "surfactants" which operate in just the oposite way that
"anionic" surfactants do. ( That probably told you a lot. <G>) There are
other surfactants such as "nonanionic, etc. etc. etc."  I am sure that as
a piano tech this all makes "perfect" sense to you :-)  If you want  to
be "blown away" with info just ask your browser to search for
"Cationics".  Take it from someone who knows - there is a lot out there
about it.

John R. Fortiner
Billings, MT.

On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:13:48 -0400 Bill Ballard <yardbird@sover.net>
writes:
> Who's got as brother-in-law who is an industrial chemist? Or which
> institutional tehcnician here has a friend over in the chem 
> department?
> 
> What are "cationics", apparently a family of "softeners" listed on a 
> jug of
> Snuggle. Do they actually soften fiber, or do they just lubricate 
> the
> flexing of the fibers in the matt. (We're talking your dense-type 
> hammer
> felts.) The solids in Snuggle show up to be a soft waxy film, when 
> you let
> a puddle evaporate on a mirror. The solids stick remarkably well to 
> the
> mirror. Any isoproyl alcohol evaporates within the first minute, and 
> from
> then on it might as well be pure Snuggle straight from the bottle, 
> left to
> evaporate.
> 
> Bill Ballard, RPT
> New Hampshire Chapter, PTG
> 
> "Lady, this piano is what it is, I am what I am, and you are what 
> you are"
> 	From a recurring nightmare.
> 
> 

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