[CAUT] Experiment Success

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  Whether or not it would work, the piano would smell like a pickle forever...pw 


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  If a wool sweater shrinks when washed, soaking it in vinegar will relax the fibers and allow it to be reshaped.  Will that work on hammers?  I don't have anything handy that would be a fair test.  Is vinegar too acidic for strings?  It could be neutralized, but that would mean another hammer treatment. 
    
  Annie Grieshop 
  Iowa (Hi, Richard!) 
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  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]On Behalf Of Richard Adkins
  Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:34 AM
  To: Caut
  Subject: [CAUT] Experiment Success

  Someone asked if there might be a way to make your own fabric softener/hammer softener....you'd want to know the ingredients....I guess you'll need to be a chemist or know one to get the proportions.... 
    
  You can find out ingredients by looking here: 
    
  http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/household/prodtree?prodcat=Home+inside&purpose=Laundry&type=fabric+softener 
    
  click on the brand type....you can click on the ingredient name once the brand page is 
  up...some have fancy names for what they put in there....I like the one they call "hydrogenated tallow"...now that sounds like something we'd like toput in a nice set of german piano hammers, doesn't it? 
    
  Downy does not list their ingredients, so I'm not sure if what you can find will actually work like Downy 
  does....here's some more....also found in some hair rinses....leave the hair soft and silky.....maybe you 
  could give the piano a real silky tone with it? 
    
  (C14-C18) Dialkyldimethylammonium methyl sulfate 
    
  Di (C14-1S-alkyl) dimethyl methyl sulfate 
    
  Didn't we used to have a Chemist/Caut member, or was that over on the other PTG list? 
    
  "Science.enotes.com"  has an article you might read: 
    
  http://science.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/fabric-softener 
    
  cheers... 
    
  Richard Adkins 
  Coe College 
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