Hammer Juice Solvents, Alcohols, Long

jolly roger baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca
Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:50:10 -0500


Dan 
       I have used it for years with out a problem, and it seems a lot
better than protec. FWIW.  
Roger



At 12:30 AM 9/8/01 -0500, you 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 
> 



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