<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ryan,<div><br></div><div>So do you remove the parts first and then treat?  Or is there a way to treat them while still in the action? Or is that too limiting for the range of motion that's needed to exercise the joint after the treatment?</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2011, at 08:43 , Ryan Sowers wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Optima; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">I've tried various ratios. I'm not completely convinced that it makes a lot of difference. Personally I use 50/50 denatured alcohol and water. I think air drying works than artificially drying it with a heat gun or hair drier. It gives the parts more time to swell. For this to be most effective, the parts should really seize up at first.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>That being said, heat does seem to be effective as well in some cases. But I would try that after the initial treatment has thoroughly dried.<br><br>This type of treatment is somewhat hit or miss. It's not very controllable. Sometimes it doesn't work as well as you would like, other times it works all too well! But, it can make a non-functioning piano playable again with very modest effort and damage to the clients checking account.<br><br>Ryan</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>