<HTML>In a message dated 6/3/2002 7:16:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, gnewell@ameritech.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj:Re: Water-Base Laquer Date:6/3/2002 7:16:59 PM Pacific Standard Time From:<A HREF="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">gnewell@ameritech.net</A> Reply-to:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To:<A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet       Gregg ,Terry</BLOCKQUOTE>   Thanks for the replys. This seems to echo a concensus. For this process I think I'll stick with the nasty stuff as you all are.  We strip outside when possible with plenty of air and protection.    Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> Dale,         I tried the water based strippers a few times and was disappointed with the results every time. I remember hearing / being told that it was a one coat application and even though you had to wait a lengthy amount of time before you took it off, it would all come off in one coat. Well ... not so in my experience. I had tried some of it on a main lid and it was so soggy by the end of the wait time that the edge veneer came off with the varnish. I was more than slightly disappointed. I've never had that happen with regular stripper. I was all for it if it would truly remove everything in one coat but it did not. The regular Toluene stripper did a better job and at a much faster rate. My 2 cents! Greg </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>