silicone lube

[Mike Kurta]

    Hello All:
    I have used the Baldwin recipe for bushing lube of 7:1 for 20
years-gallons of the stuff.  My experience:  equally as effective and long
lasting as Protek, and much less expensive.  VM and P naptha is perfectly
fine, leaves no residue and is available anywhere in quarts and gallons.
Any paint store, hardware or home center will have it.  Now the silicone is
a bit harder to find, although someone mentioned a copy machine service
center.  Havn't tried them yet.  Mike Kurta
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Teplitski" <koko99@shaw.ca>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:52 PM
Subject: Re: silicone lube


> Thanks John, but the store you mention is where I can get the 5 gal.
> amount.
> Will keep trying , unless someone tells me he/she used regular naphta.
>
> Carl
>
> John Ross wrote:
>
> > Hi Carl,
> > Go to a specialty paint store. I got some years ago at a
> > Sherwin-Williams dealer.
> > Be sure, after you mix it, you put it  in an air tight container, mine
> > evaporated long before I could use it.
> > Regards,
> > John M. Ross
> > Windsor, Nova Scotia.
> > jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carl Teplitski" <koko99@shaw.ca>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 7:31 PM
> > Subject: silicone lube
> >
> > | Have been trying to locate VM-P Naphta for mixing of
> > | silicone purchased from Wurlitzer. Able to find some
> > | cleaning type naphta, but not above type. Wondering what
> > | the difference, and would the other type be acceptable.
> > | I believe the mix was 8 to 1. ???????????/
> > |
> > | Carl / Winnipeg
> > |
>