[CAUT] Experiment Success - second thought

[Annie Grieshop]

At the risk of sounding a bit like "Hints from Heloise", washing soda also
has the effect of relaxing fibers and is surely caustic enough to neutralize
vinegar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_carbonate

I'm looking for anything that might help with the dessicated hammers found
on the old pianos that my customers can't afford to replace but need for
their kids' lessons.

Annie Grieshop
  -----Original Message-----
  From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org]On Behalf Of
Richard Adkins
  Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:34 AM
  To: Caut
  Subject: [CAUT] Experiment Success


  Someone asked if there might be a way to make your own fabric
softener/hammer softener....you'd want to know the ingredients....I guess
you'll need to be a chemist or know one to get the proportions....

  You can find out ingredients by looking here:

  http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/household/prodtree?prodcat=Ho
me+inside&purpose=Laundry&type=fabric+softener

  click on the brand type....you can click on the ingredient name once the
brand page is
  up...some have fancy names for what they put in there....I like the one
they call "hydrogenated tallow"...now that sounds like something we'd like
toput in a nice set of german piano hammers, doesn't it?

  Downy does not list their ingredients, so I'm not sure if what you can
find will actually work like Downy
  does....here's some more....also found in some hair rinses....leave the
hair soft and silky.....maybe you
  could give the piano a real silky tone with it?

  (C14-C18) Dialkyldimethylammonium methyl sulfate

  Di (C14-1S-alkyl) dimethyl methyl sulfate

  Didn't we used to have a Chemist/Caut member, or was that over on the
other PTG list?

  "Science.enotes.com"  has an article you might read:

  http://science.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/fabric-softener

  cheers...

  Richard Adkins
  Coe College
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