Advice on softening rock-hard hammers, please.

[gordon stelter]

Sounds good to me! Soak all over? Dunk ? Use denatured
alcohol and mix myself, or would 90% drugstore
Isopropyl be O.K.? How many days wait before I
re-check?
    Gordon


--- Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

>  
> In a message dated 8/1/2004 12:47:00 PM Pacific
> Standard Time,  
> lclgcnp@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> Dear  list,
> I am about to attempt softening  some
> metallic-sounding hammers on a "rebuilt" Chickering
> 1908 grand in a  church. Much talk here recently has
> been on squeezing with pliers, which I  would like
> to
> try, but not much specific information has been
> provided  on where, and how, this should be done. {
> Please help me with this  information. )
> I would also appreciate some opinions  and
> guidelines regarding the "hammer softening" liquid
> which Pianotech  sells.
> Your advice would be gratefully  appreciated,
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gordon
> 
> 
>     How about alcohol & 5% water. Soak one & see 
> what happens. If more is 
> needed......
>    Just a thought.
>   Dale
> 



		
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