<HTML>In a message dated 4/27/03 5:20:12 AM Central Daylight= Time, dnereson@dim.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">What can one use to soften hamm= ers that were lacquered at the factory?  At first I thought lacquer thi= nner, but wouldn't that just evaporate and leave them still hard?  Trie= d a voicing needle and broke three of them.  The voicing tool just will= not go in.  Tempted to go to the vise-grips extreme.  Surely the = wonderful world of chemistry offers some liquid I can drizzle on them. = ??  --David Nereson, RPT </BLOCKQUOTE> Whose hammers are these? Wim </HTML>