My funny WD-40 story: I was working on an old upright in school,it was on a concrete floor....When I opened Buttom Board-an army of cockroaches jumped out, running in every direction.I had a can of WD-40 and quickly sprayed them and....surprise!!! WD-40 worked as an exterminator,too.. Isaac Sadigursky -----Original Message----- >From: John Ross <jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca> >Sent: Apr 22, 2009 5:33 PM >To: pianotech at ptg.org >Subject: Re: [pianotech] What's in WD-40? > >Another 'funny' WD40 story. >Back in the 70's, this store had a trade in with rusty strings, so the owner sprayed them with WD40. >When he told me, I said it was a no no, so his way of getting it off, was with a Bernzamatic torch. >I wasn't there, but he told me the strings broke all over the place, bong bong bong. >He took a grand in trade that had the WD40 treatment, he knew by now, so he offered them practically nothing, and had me put a new pinblock in. Turned out not too bad. >John Ross, >Windsor, Nova Scotia > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gerald Groot > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:18 PM > Subject: Re: [pianotech] What's in WD-40? > > > Care to hear a funny story? OK! > > > > This WD-40 thing reminded of about 25 years ago or so, when WD-40 was thought to be okay. (No, I don't use it any longer.) I had just finished raising pitch a full tone to A/440. It was a spinet piano that had squeaks everywhere. Just when I thought I was done, something else would squeak; a damper spring, soft pedal spring, sustaining pedal spring, key bushing, sustaining pedal rod, etc. I was already beginning to get POED about it. FINALLY I got them all fixed after about 20 minutes +. I took my LARGE can of WD-40 and tossed it into my tool box from about 8 feet away. Well, as my luck would have it, it just so happened to land on the tip of a screw driver that was sticking up and blew a hole in the can which not only took off like a shot, it was full of course, but, it also squirted everything in sight. Flailing around like a cat on fire! When all was said and done, I had WD-40 all over the piano, the floor, the walls, the ceiling everywhere!!! I think at that moment actually, for several minutes afterward, it was probably a very good thing that there was nobody home that day... There was a "hint" of blue in the air. Panicking, I called my dad and said WHAT DO I DO NOW??? I finally managed to get it all from all the walls and everywhere else with soap and water, mixed heavily and a LOT of elbow grease. > > > > For some reason, my dad thought that was hillarious! He was laughing so hard he could hardly tell me what to use to clean it up!!! > > > > > > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Magness > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:10 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] What's in WD-40? > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote: > > Thought people here might enjoy this: > > http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside > > or... > > http://tinyurl.com/cv5mg7 > > "What's Inside WD-40? Superlube's Secret Sauce - The recipe for this > superlube has long been a closely guarded trade secret-until now. > Wired sent a can to the lab and got the ingredients..." > > -- > Jim Moy > Moy Piano Service, LLC > http://www.moypiano.com > > > > > > I never use the stuff, I found long ago that "lubricating" a lock in Wisconsin at least with WD-40 was a temporary solution at best. It only lasted a few days and then the lock was worse than it had been originally. > > I discovereed a something called Onelube, made by one of those companies that makes the oil additives that are supposed to extend your engine life, Slick 50 I think it was. > > One shot of Onelube in a lock and it's lubed for life, great stuff. > > > > Mike > -- > I intend to live forever. So far, so good. > Steven Wright > > > Michael Magness > Magness Piano Service > 608-786-4404 > www.IFixPianos.com > email mike at ifixpianos.com > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > > Virus Database (VPS): 090422-0, 04/22/2009 > Tested on: 4/22/2009 5:18:58 PM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >
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