Ballistol

[Gregor Weldert]

Hi Jeannie & List,

i´m really astonished that nobody of you uses ballistol! Here in germany it
belongs to the standard equipment of every technician. Nearly every tuner
uses it (mostly for centers) and only it. Some technicians  use other
lubricants, but most of the german technicians are really traditionalistic
and accept only ballistol, becaus their grandfathers used it too ;-)

You can buy here a tool that looks like a fountain-pen, but you fill it not
with ink but with ballistol. So you can apply a single drop right to the
point where it´s needed. Very usefull even in every houshold and a nice and
exclusive gift for friends. It´s called miser (niggard). to see on
www.manufactum.de  write in the search-form at the bottom left (german:
suchen): geizhals

Amazing: ballistol does not work at centers from plastic parts!? Semms to
depend from the wood-cells, the so-called tracheen/tracheiden (could´nt find
the english translation for that in a dictionary). Does anybody have
experience with other lubricants (like silicon-spray) on
plasticpart-centers?

Summary: i can completely reccomend ballistol for working on pianos:
centers, pedals, lock....

Gregor Weldert
Germany