Plastic Lakk

[Wilsons]

Following on Rob's idea, you might check to see if it *is* lacquer.  Try
some lacquer thinner around an out of the way place where it's cracked &
see if the finish moves around & melts back together.  Lacquer is a "hot"
finish.

Wally Wilson, RPT

At 09:27 AM 3/14/01 -0600, you wrote:
>I would say that is probably NOT repairable since any repairs would
>somehow require the existing finish to be softened so that the two
>surfaces of a crack could "melt" back together in order to be seamless.
>This sounds like an epoxy finish- sometimes popular on bar counters and
>other such places.
>
>Rob Goodale, RPT
>Las Vegas, NV
>
>
>Richard Brekne wrote:
>
>> Hi List... ran into a piano today that had been dropped on its
>> back and the owners claim that the laquer shattered as a result.
>> There are certainly many long cracks in this very hard plastic
>> laquer. Sort of like the long cracks a car window can get.
>>
>> I dont work on plastic laquer so I am wonderering if anyone out
>> there can tell me if these kinds of cracks in the lakk are
>> repairable, or does it mean basically that the piano has to be
>> stripped and refinished ? There are about 25 cracks  spread over
>> the whole piano, ranging from say 8 to 15 inches in length and
>> penetraiting the entire depth of the finish. In a couple places
>> it is already starting to loosen from the wood and flace up.
>