Hi, At 08:55 PM 2/12/2011, you wrote: >On Feb 12, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > >>I'll have to read that and see how come you are more successful >>with this than I have been.... which is mostly not at all. > >Probably because it involves soaking, not just flushing with solvent >running down the hammer tail. The key is to leave the hammer felt in >a bath of solvent for a period of time, to give the solids time to >dissolve. I also use a mix of acetone and "lacquer thinner" >(whatever mix of things that might be) to cut the things most likely >to have been applied. A couple soaks, and the hammer is pretty close >to flushed, at least in my experience. Right. Whatever "mix" I use depends on what I can deduce from what appears to have been used to begin with. That said, Fred is spot on, the important thing is simply leaving the hammers in the solvent long enough for it to actually dissolve whatever is in there. The only change from that would be if I _knew_ that the hammers had been hardened with lacquer or sanding sealer, I might just rotate the stack so that they could stand on their tails in ice cube trays, soak them with lacquer thinner, and then cover them with aluminum foil in between applications. However, there no chance that will work if keytop/plastic has been used as the hardener...so, a real soaking is the order of the day. Thanks, Fred. Best. Horace
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