eliminating rust #2--oopps

[Farrell]

........and when the rust is very advanced, the wire is pitted, and you are
not going to clean that stuff off anyway.

My observations.

P.S. People do like their strings cleaned strictly for aesthetic reasons.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: eliminating rust #2--oopps


Phil;
 Rust in your area is a fact of life and the best thing to do, in most
cases,
is to leave it alone. The polished surface on music wire has 'some' inherent
rust resistance but this is a long way from being 'rust-proff'. What you
have
is "Polita" which has been used for many years in rust removal. Although it
works well in rust removal it also leaves a more scratched/etched surface
and
inevitably leads to more rusting and this sooner than later.  Some of the
Scotch Brite© products will do a better job and leave less of a mess. I
prefer the 'white' and/or 'grey' pads for this work....actually I prefer not
to mess with rust at all since it needs to be in 'very' advanced stages
before there is any tonal degradation anyway......
my view.
Jim Bryant (FL)