bass string rust

[Newton Hunt]

A few years ago there was some braiding cloth sold that had
excessive acid in the cloth.  This caused corrosion and
deterioration of the steel the cloth touched.  __it happens.

		Newton

Charly Tuner wrote:
> 
> I found a very strange situation while inspecting a 20+ year old Schafer &
> Son's console the other day...at least in my limited experience it seems
> strange. The ONLY sign of rust/corrosion i found was on the bass strings in
> the first section only, and NOT on, or near the tuning pins. Each and every
> bass string, (from AO to the end of the first break only), were ENCRUSTED
> with so much rust, that they literally would snap like pretzels. The rust
> was present ONLY above the hitch pins, and before the bridge, exactly at the
> point where the string cloth was interwoven. So it seems that, somehow, the
> rust resulted in some way from this red cloth, which was dry as a bone, and
> to the owner's knowledge, never wet, or exposed to water. Any guesses as to
> what could have caused this deterioration? I'm wondering if there could have
> been a chemical reaction caused by the cloth.
> 
> Terry Peterson
> Los Angeles, CA
> Associate Member, PTG
> 
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