<div>As is turpentine, just read the warning label, as on all finishing products. One can't expect owners to wear our dual/fumes/dust masks. </div> <div>Nancy Salmon RPT</div> <div>Frostburg, MD  </div> <div>On 5/11/07, David Ilvedson <<a href="mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net">ilvey@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Moth balls contain Naphthalene a newly listed carcinogen....hi back from San Francisco... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA  94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Richard Brekne" <<a href="mailto:ricb@pianostemmer.no">ricb@pianostemmer.no</a>> To: <a href="mailto:caut@ptg.org"> caut@ptg.org</a> Received: 5/11/2007 11:24:09 AM Subject: [CAUT]  Critter-damaged balance punchings in Yamaha P-22s >Hi there San Fransisco... :) >Jim Ellis reminds us of times long past. And to be sure, moths and other >unwelcome insectual type guests are less a problem these days. But they >pop up.  Fortunatly today there are a host of products available for use >that work fine in pianos. Go to your local insect poison shop and >explain the problem... that you have to kill the darn things... but you >have lots of metal parts that can corrode if the wrong stuff is >applied.  And... of course that pianos are usually inside. >Moth balls, if I remember correctly.... are not a good idea... tho I do >not remember the reason given.  I use a pump spray product that soaks >into key bed felts and wood and other such areas and it works very very >well and lasts for a couple years. >Usually, if you get attacked... they will come back at you in the future >at some time.  At least thats my experience. >btw... Hi Doug !  Long time since I heard from you. >Cheers >RicB </blockquote></div>