alcoholic key cracks

[gordon stelter]

I still thinks it's the sudden cooling caused by the
evaporation of the alcohol. Perhaps abetted by cheap
plastic, a few years old. I remember this happening to
me, too. Better to clean with "Windex" (TM).
     Thump


--- Tom Sivak <tvaktvak at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Well, that's certainly a possibilty.  
>    
>   Thanks for the feedback,
> Tom Sivak
> 
> Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr at srvinet.com> wrote:
>           My bet would be that they were cracked
> before they were cleaned, Only after they were
> cleaned could the small cracks be seen.
>   Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr at srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Tom Sivak 
>   To: pianotech 
>   Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 8:02 AM
>   Subject: alcoholic key cracks
>   
> 
>   List
>    
>    A client of mine just bought a Yamaha G3 from a
> private party.   She decided to clean the keys real
> good, you know, disinfect them and all, so she used
> alcohol and rubbed them clean.  Later that day she
> found little hairline cracks on 18 of the keys.  
> 
> I've never heard of this before.  I've never tried
> (nor recommended) alcohol on plastic keytops, but
> evidently this is a pretty bad choice.  I always
> recommend Windex, sprayed on a cloth not on the keys
> themselves.
>    
>   Still, I wonder why only 18 of them cracked?  
>    
>   Has anyone else ever heard of alcohol causing
> cracks in plastic keytops?
> 
> Tom Sivak
>   Chicago
> 
> 


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