Hi Dan, I didn't want to name names but since you poked you head in I will take a shot at it. :) If you wax your car near your garage, the house windows are open, there is no breeze silicon can be detected at the window opposite from the garage. That stuff TRAVELS!!!. And therein lies it's liability. It likes to spread itself everywhere, one molecule thick, just like a baby can do with food and it's tray. If it is applied to the casters it WILL be in the pinblock in a matter of days. Enough and the piano will not hold. It will also get between the bearing points and the strings and cause tuning instability. It will get between the key and the plastic and the keytop will come off. How do I know this? A well known manufacturer used silicon to lubricate the actions of about 100 pianos. Eventually they replace every piano so treated because they just would not stay in tune. A very, very expensive lesson. Silicone then I have been yelling about the stuff. There are so MANY good alternatives out there why use such garbage. Benzene is a great cleaner but I will not use it to clean with because it causes liver damage, within weeks of use. Something things are dangerous to use something are stupid to use. Pick your poison. Loved to Martha. Newton thepianoarts wrote: > > Hi Newton, > > My guess is, (outside of the fish eye finish problem) that your adversity > to using silicone in treating tight bushings etc., is related primairly to > the possibality of it getting into the pinblock...yes? If so, the hammer > flanges in a Baldwin Acrosonic are a long way from the pinblock. What are > your thoughts? (Like I have to ask!) > > Dan
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