WD40

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Ron, I must be cixelsyd, I could read your sign off <G>
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: WD40


>
> >It's amazing to me that no one has mentioned what the letters
> >WD stand for. It's Water Displacement, as in when your
> >carburetor floods out! Otherwise, IMHO, WD-40 has no place
> >within 10 miles of a piano! JHHO & flame suit on!
> >
> >Avery
>
>
> Well, OK, but I'd prefer 20 miles. About the second year I was in
business,
> I did a service call for a dealer - a year old Yamaha with sticking keys.
> The guy was right. Those keys would have stuck to just about anything. The
> guy who did the dealer's tunings on new pianos had hosed, sorry, HOSED
down
> the interior of the piano (bass strings and all) to "fix" a squeaking
> damper. Turned out, it was a damper lift rod hanger, and it still
squeaked,
> but the rest of the piano was a throw away. He should have just dipped it.
> The piano would still have been turned into a big patio candle, but at
> least he might have killed the squeak in the process.
>
> Folks, this stuff isn't even a lubricant, much less a lubricant suited for
> use in a piano. It's all in the archives, in gory detail.
>
> .sgurd ot on yas tsuJ
>
> Ron N
>
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