---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi U.S. cellulose is my brand/hardener of choice for years. Its a wonderful lacquer for our refinishing too. Just thought I'd throw that in. Dale Erwin I'm not an expert on web searches so it was impossible for me to find any distributors of this product in the east. I did find the product and a distributor in CA. The product is from US Cellulose and the distributor is Liberon Supply. Here is a page from their site: http://www.liberonsupply.com/USCBase.html Unfortunately one cannot buy anything smaller than a gallon. The price is reasonable for the gallon but with the shipping and HASMAT fee it costs $47.63. Well what the heck, I bought one! The gallon arrived yesterday so I have not had a chance to try some hammer hardening with it. The solids are 24% by weight and it is fairly clear. Mixed with thinner it looks very clear. Eric Schandall was here for a visit last week (another story) and he gave me a bit of the Steinway mix that is unavailable to us. Attached is a pic of four bottles with different hardeners. From the left, the first is standard nitrocellulose lacquer from most hardware stores, next is the Steinway mix(3:1), US Cellulose mix (5:1) and finally the acetone mix from the Pianotek pellets. If the reproduction on your screen is accurate, the US Cellulose is the most clear of the four. The information from the woodweb site says that water white will yellow with time. Of course that is on wood applications. It will be interesting to see how the hammers will look in time. How much time is anyone's guess. Don McKechnie Ithaca College ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/bc/05/05/ca/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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