The only problem with collodium is waking up with a bad headache on the shop floor...;-] Seriously though...ether is extremly flamable... I'd like to try it though... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley at stanford.edu> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 8/24/2006 1:13:21 AM Subject: Re: collidon Hammer Laquer >Hi, Ric, >It's: >Collodion: a viscous solution of pyroxylin used especially as a >coating for wounds or for photographic films >In piano work, it is usually used mixed thinly with ether and is >exceptionally useful on instruments with hard-pressed hammers when >not much reinforcing is needed, rather a bit of >brightening. Bosendorfer and Bechstein used to use it a good deal in >production. I have found it very useful on S&S Hamburg hammers. >Best. >Horace >At 12:32 AM 8/24/2006, you wrote: >>Sorry bout the spelling... >> >>This was taken from the archives after a search for hammer laquer: >> >> /Collodium is amongst others being used in nail polish as a >> hardener, and it >> smells pretty awful, like a hospital, because of the ether. >> On the other hand, it too works very well as a hammer hardener, and, >> it works >> VERY fast, and I like the end result very much. >> >> / >> >>Cheers >>RicB
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