graphite lubricants

[Lance Lafargue]

 I think it is just graphite in denatured alcohol.  There is NEVER any
stale beer in my shop!  Fresht is best!  I would think that stale beer
would not flash off very quickly.  Maybe that's why it took so long to
build pianos long ago.  
Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: Ron Nossaman <nossaman@SOUTHWIND.NET>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: graphite lubricants
> Date: Friday, November 28, 1997 10:42 AM
> 
> At 07:55 PM 11/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Jon Page <jpage@capecod.net>
> >To: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
> >Date: Tuesday, November 25, 1997 12:42 PM
> >Subject: Re: Grand knuckle material
> >
> >
> 
> Ding, wrong, thank you for playing. Graphite greas is powdered graphite
> mixed in grease, just like it says.  
> (has a certain symetry doesn't it? %-)  ).
> 
> Dag is NOT graphite grease in that it doesn't contain any grease. Since
it
> DOES contain graphite, it's graphite... er, something else. I don't know
> what the vehicle and binder is in Dag, but there is one, and it ain't
> grease! Does anybody know for sure? I'd love to be able to whip up a
batch
> of something quickly for those times when I find my Dag has developed
"dried
> lake bottom" syndrome since I last used it and I need something right
now.
> 
> Errata: I'm told that "stale beer" was used as a binder for graphite in
> times past. Sounds like an excuse to me. Any port in a storm, and all
that. 
> 
> Answers gratefully received, Ron
> 
> 
> 
> >>It seems to me that graphite grease is powdered graphite mixed with
> >>petroleum jelly; yes, no?
> >
> >
> >
> >Jon & List:
> >
> >"Dag" graphite grease is graphite suspended in denatured alchohol only I
> >believe.....
> >
> >Greg Torres
> >
> >
> 
> 
>  Ron Nossaman
>