<!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 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Terry.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would sand to bare wood (carefully) = and restain.  (But who am I ?)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane Collin.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">Farrell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=refinish@ptg.org = href="mailto:refinish@ptg.org">Mailing list for piano = refinishers.</A> ; <A title=pianotech@ptg.org = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 21, 2005 = 6:39 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Stain Stripping</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I stripped the finish off the inside = of the case (rim) of a piano I am working on. I used a methylene-chloride-free = product called Dyna-Strip 2, sold by Pianolac. One application of stripper = left on overnight removed the finish completely - it literally fell off - = no scraping required at all. I'm very happy with that aspect of the results.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In some areas, hunks of the stripper = slid down the face of the rim - it still removed the finish - but in those = areas, less stain was removed. So now I have shadows of light and dark where there = was an apparent difference in stain removal.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What is the best way to address these = stain shadows?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:000b01c5a673$8262f3a0$fb70c850@ordinateursteph" = align=baseline border=0></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:000c01c5a673$8262f3a0$fb70c850@ordinateursteph" = align=baseline border=0></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>