If it's a white, hard, scally stuff, I talked to Bob M. at PT about this and had my mind put at east, can't for the life of me remember why. Fenton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Euphonious Thumpe" <lclgcnp at yahoo.com> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [pianotech] McLube ... or McCrud? > Or humidity? > > Euphonious Thumpe > > > --- On Mon, 1/19/09, John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: John Formsma <formsma at gmail.com> >> Subject: [pianotech] McLube ... or McCrud? >> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> >> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 10:14 PM >> Shop cleaning today. Noticed some strange growth in an >> unopened bottle of >> McLube 444? that I'd bought at the Rochester >> convention. So that's been 2 >> 1/2 years ago, right? >> It has been unopened, as I've been using up other lubes >> that were already >> opened. Notice the line of crud going from the bottom to >> the lid. It's like >> it's growing from the bottom up. Weird. When shaken, >> it did not return to >> the clear substance that it was when purchased. It had >> chunks of stuff >> floating in it, and was very murky looking. >> >> Any of you guys know what that crud growth might be? >> I'm no chemist, but >> I'd say whoever packs this stuff in the bottles should >> find an alternate >> container. Some reaction in the liquid to the lid material? >> Or reaction to >> the plastic bottle? ??? >> >> -- >> JF > > > > > >
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