In a message dated 6/23/00 9:44:48 PM Central Daylight Time, RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes: << Something occurs to me. If a smoked piano is ozoned and the smell goes away, the smoke doesn't. It stays, and is corrosive. Is it the ozone that's the problem, or the smoke residue, for which the ozone gets the blame? True, the ozone may accelerate the corrosion process already under way, but is it really the cause? Ron N >> Regardless of which is the cause, the main thing is that there is corrosion. That is why I pointed out that a piano caught in a fire needs to be rebuilt, or, if the cost of doing that is prohibitive, it needs to be replaced. Willem
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