Cleaning oily tuning pins

[gordon stelter]

I'd put the oily tuning pins in a gallon paint can
with lacquer thinner in it, and let them soak a bit,
then sosh around. 
Then I'd spread them out on paper in the sun. Wear a 
carbon-filter mask whenever using solvents. Your liver
will thank you!
     Thump

P.S. The best way to get rid of old solvents is to
spill them out onto a  giant piece of cardboard 
( like can be had from the backs of furniture stores )
and then let it evaporate off. This is the method the
EPA recommended to me, if I don't have a  quantity
that warrants driving to the HAZMAT dump.
( and probably less problematic, too! )


 --- Alpha88x@aol.com wrote:

> Greetings, 
> 
>          I purchased a bunch of piano stuff from a
> gal who said she is 
> getting out of it. There was alot of good stuff for
> the price of it however there 
> are a couple of boxes of questionable tuning pins.
> 
>          First, there are pins that have a slight
> amount of rust, not much at 
> all just very small shallow spots. Are these pins
> good for maybe old uprights 
> or somthing or should pins with even the smallest
> amount of rust never be 
> used? How meticulous should one be with this sort of
> thing?
> 
>          Second, the tuning pins in another box feel
> slightly oily. I think I 
> am just going to take them to the scrap. They could
> contaminate a pinblock 
> couldn't they? 
> 
> Its so late
> Ju;ia GOttchall, 
> Readong, PA
> 



		
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