Puzzler: instant rust

[Greg Newell]

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Dave,
         My guess would be condensation. Seems that the temperature was=20
lower than could hold the RH of the air.

Greg Newell





At 12:57 AM 2/13/2004, you wrote:

>Listers,
>
>I had a tuning today on a brand new Kawai RX-3 6 foot 2 grand.  The piano=
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>has been in the house for maybe 3 months.  It was closed up tight, but=20
>when I opened it, I saw that rust was already starting to form on the=20
>strings and on some of the pins.  I was shocked, and was at a loss to=20
>figure out how this could happen, especially in a house with radiant=20
>heating(that's another issue).
>
>It is on caster cups on a painted cement slab floor, and there are no=20
>plants in the room.
>
>I had a few ideas, and I'm pretty sure I figured out the reason for this=20
>early oxidation, especially after talking to the rather freaked-out owner=
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>tonight.
>
>So what, in your esteemed opinions, might this be caused by?
>
>Dave "rust never sleeps and neither do I" Stahl
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