At 6:14 PM -0400 7/1/99, JIMRPT@AOL.COM wrote: > Considering the volatility of plain vapors of acetone I don't think putting >a concentrated mist in the air would be a thing I would want to do I agree. There would be litle overspray to create a mist, as I would blow directly into the felt mass. There would be volitiles leaching out of the hammer felt, and ventilation should be provided. But certainly nothing more dangerous than Flor'da lightnin' water. I would like to have a little velocity so as to flush the now-liquid solids out of the crown. Just the velocity of the felt's inherent wicking would be too slow to move solids. Air of course could do it, but if the fibers were really stuck together by the reinforcer, playing air n them with any reasonable pressure might damage them mechanically. I'd prefer the reinforcer be disolved rather than hard and unyielding under the stream of pressure. (Air, acetone, lightenin' water, whatever.) It's worth a try, if anyone has a piano in their living room I can come & practise on. I'm also tossing the idea out to see if anyone has had similar ideas (or even "been there, done that, and had their malpractice insurance jacked up because if it"). Bill Ballard, RPT New Hampshire Chapter, PTG "There are fifty ways to screw up on this job. If you can think of twenty of them, you're a genius......and you aint no genius" Mickey Rourke to William Hurt, in "Body Heat", discussing arson.
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