<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 6/26/2006 7:09:44 PM Central Daylight Time, tvaktvak@sbcglobal.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I do, of course, lift the punchings and twist down there.  In fact, just to show you how careful I can be, (at times) I completely removed the punchings, on a piano that was getting its keys rebushed, before I polished the keypins with Brasso and untwisted them back to their proper orientation.  That way, not only did I not scratch the keypins when untwisting, I also did not get any Brasso on the felt punchings. </BLOCKQUOTE> Brasso has a high concentration of ammonia. You're better off with Noxon, or even better with Wenol or Flitz. PR-J</HTML>