I would be careful there as the thinner will dissolve the plastic and you'll have a nice coating of plastic on the hammer you're trying to rid of plastic. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Johnson Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:04 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] Getting lacquer out of hammers Hi- The only additional trick I would add to what already has been said is that it can be helpful to quickly wrap the hammers by section with plastic to slow evaporation and let the thinner work more effectively. They don't have to be wrapped for a long time, but depends. Maybe an hour or so, then rinse out with more. I use the maple packing strips from Renner shank boxes to clamp plastic around the hammers with low tension spring clamps. Might as well take something in advance for the headache you are likely to get from the fumes. good luck, Dennis Johnson St. Olaf _____ On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Horace Greeley <hgreeley at sonic.net> wrote: Hi Israel, Contact me offline on this...done it lots...may know those hammers. Best. Horace ------Original Message------ From: Israel Stein Sender: caut-bounces at ptg.org To: caut at ptg.org ReplyTo: caut at ptg.org Sent: Dec 8, 2008 11:20 AM Subject: [CAUT] Getting lacquer out of hammers Hello, I know that there is a thread about this somewhere in the list archives, but the archives went away with the server move and won't be back in time to do this over Winter Break, if possible, so... I have a set of overlacquered Steinway hammers sitting on the shelf here at SFSU that I would love to be able to re-use - since our parts budget here is fast disappearing into the 12 billion dollar California deficit. Is there any way to get most of that lacquer out of these hammers, and if so, how? Israel Stein Piano Technician Creative Arts Technical Services San Francisco State University Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20081208/96959918/attachment.html>
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