Does Ballistol attract dust? The carrier in Protek evaporates leaving teflon? or whatever in the bushing. I would think that Ballistol would stay oily if used in guns and would not be appropriate for pianos but I'd be willing to give it a try... David I. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/26/01 at 8:56 PM Gregor Weldert wrote: >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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