Industrial Chemists, Please?

[Richard Moody]

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> From: dporritt <dporritt@swbell.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: RE: Industrial Chemists, Please?
> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:44 PM
> 
> I've used fabric softener (Snuggle) several times.  
> 
> Since I figured the hammers were a lost cause anyhow, I used the fabric
> softener/alcohol mix and dried the hammers with a hair dryer.  When I slid
> the action back in the cavity, I had a totally different - and beautiful
> piano.  It changed from the piano no one would play, to the one everyone
> wanted to play.  I don't know the chemistry but it works very well.


Good recomendation.  What is the "mix" and the drying times.  How much did you apply
when and where? Would it have mattered if you didn't use the hair dryer? ie apply
the "mix" and come back the next day when it has dried.....   

Snuggle eh?  It HAS to be Snuggle?  What about Woolite? 

Ric a Wonderin