<html> <body> Patrick - You, perhaps inadvertently, transposed my question.  I wasn't suggesting alcohol-water over naphtha (sorry for previous mis-spelling), but the other way round.  As best as I can tell, naphtha does not contain water and is a solvent, thus, I would think it would clean without shrinking.  As far as the manufacturer's suggestions, isn't this a similar problem for which Wurlitzer proposed using mineral oil and silicone?  And of course, who can forget the manufacturers (Baldwin) suggestion as to how to deal with black butt corfam, or whatever)? My fairly specific question with regard to shrinking is the effectiveness of controlling both the amount of water in the mix (as per previous posts) and the amount of shrinking that occurs.  Why (I'm about to do that think that Ron hates: speculate) would you assume, or find, that shrinking positively addresses a center that is waxified? Thanks - David Skolnik Hastings on Hudson At 10:15 AM 11/27/2011, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">David, If you are referring to your suggestion that alcohol-water solutions rather than naphtha be applied to stuck Baldwin centers, one reason might be the alcoho-water procedure was the manufacturer's suggested procedure. I know naphtha has been a traditional (perhaps even taught by Bill Garlick at NBSS in the '70s?) approach, but I have never been enamored by that choice. I tend to find tight Baldwin centers gummy with some waxy substance, and either ream (Mannino style) and repin On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 8:33 AM, David Skolnik <<a href="mailto:davidskolnik@optonline.net"> davidskolnik@optonline.net</a>> wrote: <dl> <dd>Meanwhile, what's the chance that my original question might be addressed, or at least deemed equally irrelevant? <dd>David Skolnik <dd>Hastings on Hudson, NY </dl></blockquote></body> </html>