Meguire's Cleaner Wax may work. At 06:27 AM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote: >Dave, > >If the finish is a "filled" finish you should be able to eliminate the >ink spot. I would start with some mineral spirits first, to see if it >may dissolve it. It will not harm the finish. If that doesn't work, you >will have to "rub out" the stain, starting with the least abrasive >compound that you can find and moving into more cutting abrasives only if >necessary. Traditional finish abrasives are pumice and rottenstone used >with oil or water and a dense felt pad. Auto shops have a multitude of >fine abrasive rubbing compounds for rubbing out tiny scratches, and they >work great. Something every home is sure to have is some toothpaste. It >can be used with a dampened cloth or with a WHITE scotch brite pad >moistened a bit. If a harsh abrasive is required to remove it, proceed >with caution so as not to rub through the finish, but if it is a filled >finish, there is little likelihood of that happening unless the stain is >particularly nasty. If the sheen of the finish was altered in this spot >by rubbing out the ink stain, use fine abrasives to bring it back up to >match the surrounding finish. > >Good luck. > >Mark Potter >bases-loaded@juno.com > > >On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:48:39 EST PDtek@AOL.COM writes: >> >>A local dealer delivered a Yamaha P22 to a customer. Upon setting a >>tuning >>appointment she said that when the piano arrived, there were what >>appeard to >>her to be blue and black ball point pen marks on the light oak >>cabinet. She >>said that after some rubbing, the blue came off but the black is still >>there. >> >>Does anyone have a suggestion for removing this mark without damaging >>the >>finish? >> >>Dave Bunch > Jon Page Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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