Ballistol

[David Ilvedson]

Does Ballistol attract dust?  The carrier in Protek evaporates leaving
teflon? or whatever in the bushing.  I would think that Ballistol would
stay oily if used in guns and would not be appropriate for pianos but I'd
be willing to give it a try...

David I.

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On 9/26/01 at 8:56 PM Gregor Weldert wrote:

>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