This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I had a customer that was very proud after doing the same thing... until = 3 months later when they all became very brittle and cracked, I assume = from the bleach. Mike McCoy ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Tvak@aol.com=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 7:32 PM Subject: bleaching ivories: E-Z List I remember a thread about bleaching ivories a few months back and my = time came this week to try it. Three ivories were missing on the piano = and going to my stock of old ivories I could find only 4 or 5 that were = long enough. Unfortunately, they were really yellow and didn't match = their prospective neighbors in the least. =20 There was discussion on the thread about sunlight and peroxide and it = seemed to be a pretty complicated procedure. Having nothing to lose but = one old ivory... I filled a cup with some laundry bleach and threw in one of the keys. = Twenty minutes later it was a perfect white. So, I threw in the other = two and they also turned white, but unfortunately I left them in too = long and they warped into a shallow U shape. I put them side by side on = the bench, laid my aluminum ruler on top of them, and put my bowling = ball on top of that. (I had to set a book next to the bowling ball to = keep it from rolling off the bench.) End result: three perfectly matching white ivories. Whomsoever said = that laundry bleach wouldn't work: not true! Tom Sivak Chicago ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ab/fb/88/58/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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