Hi Jeannie & List, iīm really astonished that nobody of you uses ballistol! Here in germany it belongs to the standard equipment of every technician. Nearly every tuner uses it (mostly for centers) and only it. Some technicians use other lubricants, but most of the german technicians are really traditionalistic and accept only ballistol, becaus their grandfathers used it too ;-) You can buy here a tool that looks like a fountain-pen, but you fill it not with ink but with ballistol. So you can apply a single drop right to the point where itīs needed. Very usefull even in every houshold and a nice and exclusive gift for friends. Itīs called miser (niggard). to see on www.manufactum.de write in the search-form at the bottom left (german: suchen): geizhals Amazing: ballistol does not work at centers from plastic parts!? Semms to depend from the wood-cells, the so-called tracheen/tracheiden (couldīnt find the english translation for that in a dictionary). Does anybody have experience with other lubricants (like silicon-spray) on plasticpart-centers? Summary: i can completely reccomend ballistol for working on pianos: centers, pedals, lock.... Gregor Weldert Germany
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