[pianotech] McLube ... or McCrud?

[Fenton Murray]

If it's a white, hard, scally stuff, I talked to Bob M. at PT about this and 
had my mind put at east, can't for the life of me remember why.
Fenton
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From: "Euphonious Thumpe" <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:58 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] McLube ... or McCrud?


> Or humidity?
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> --- On Mon, 1/19/09, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [pianotech] McLube ... or McCrud?
>> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
>> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 10:14 PM
>> Shop cleaning today. Noticed some strange growth in an
>> unopened bottle of
>> McLube 444? that I'd bought at the Rochester
>> convention. So that's been 2
>> 1/2 years ago, right?
>> It has been unopened, as I've been using up other lubes
>> that were already
>> opened. Notice the line of crud going from the bottom to
>> the lid.  It's like
>> it's growing from the bottom up.  Weird.  When shaken,
>> it did not return to
>> the clear substance that it was when purchased.  It had
>> chunks of stuff
>> floating in it, and was very murky looking.
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>> Any of you guys know what that crud growth might be?
>> I'm no chemist, but
>> I'd say whoever packs this stuff in the bottles should
>> find an alternate
>> container. Some reaction in the liquid to the lid material?
>>  Or reaction to
>> the plastic bottle?   ???
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>> -- 
>> JF
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