Hammer Juice Solvents, Alcohols, Long

[Newton Hunt]

> Newton thinks I should be shot. 

Now don't be giving me ideas, Dan.

No proof, just urban legends, but if it can go through _glass_ and plastic what
chance does air have?  The problem with this stuff is that you won't know there
is a problem until you have stability problem with your tuning or keytops start
coming off or glue joints begin to fail.  By that time it is way, way too late.

I had some of that stuff, from Wurlitzer I think, but dumped it when I started
hearing horror stories.  

Dan, you are so stubborn.  :)  Best to Martha.

		Newton

thepianoarts wrote:
> 
> Earl,
> 
>     I have a question for you about using naptha and Baldwins silicone oil,
> (their recepie) to "treat" sluggish flanges. My friend Newton, strongly
> disapproves of using this mixture, because of the chance that the silicone
> will make its way into the pinblock, etc.
>      Baldwin sells about 1/2 a pint of silicone oil, with instructions to
> mix it with one gallon VM&P naptha. I have been squirting it on flanges for
> many moons. Newton thinks I should be shot. Aside from silicones reputation
> for causing refinishing (fish-eye) problems, do you have any knowledge of
> its properties, for example, to migrate from the hammer shank flanges, to
> the pinblock, in a vertical piano?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan