<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I stand corrected. You can't dissolve graphite. I should have said suspended.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Al Guecia</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "Ron Nossaman" <</FONT><A href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net"><FONT face=Arial>rnossaman@cox.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: "Pianotech List" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face=Arial>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:40 PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: Pinblock transfer agent</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial>> <BR>>>  > From Steve Grattan on 9/30/1998. <BR>>>  ><BR>>>  >> Acheson DAG154 contains:<BR>>>  >> /ISOPROPANOL<BR>>> />> GRAPHITE<BR>>>  >> /N-BUTYL ALCOHOL/<BR>>>  >> HEXYLENE GLYCOL<BR>>>  >> PROPYLENE GLYCOL METHYL ETHER (very slow solvent)<BR>>>  <BR>>> *There is no binder in the above ingredients. It's all solvents and two <BR>>> of them are alcohol. Therefore it should disolve in alcohol.*<BR>>> ** <BR>>> *Al Guecia*<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Try it yourself, rather than thereforing.  Graphite won't <BR>> dissolve in alcohol. The binder here would be the hexylene <BR>> glycol, being the only thing on the list not a solvent, and <BR>> being a glycol, like prophylene and ethylene glycols, which <BR>> dry sticky.<BR>> <BR>> Ron N.<BR>></FONT></BODY></HTML>