At 08:40 AM 10/27/01 -0600, Joe wrote: >Hi Ron, Rogerio, >Ron, It may be your end. We have a Good Outlook <G> >All messages commimg in fine. They are not coming in fine here on my (registered) copy of Eudora Pro, though. Too bad too as I'm curious about this product. >Rogerio, Thanks for the information. I will do some head to head testing as >soon as I get my hands on the Ballistol. It was reported that it is designed to creep. That doesn't sound like a good thing in pianos. On a related note, my guitar tech (why is it that we personalize things like that... MY guitar tech, MY piano tuner, MY mechanic?) gave me a product to use on my guitar strings to clean them and he swears by it. There are probably a few people on this list who are familiar with it. The product is called "Hoppes #9" (http://www.hoppes.com/) and it's used in the firearms industry as a "nitro powder solvent" that also cleans lead out of gun barrels. Using the lint-free cleaning patches/swabs supplied to the gun industry, he said to wipe down the strings after each session to remove the contaminants that make strings go dead. I'm about to try it on a couple of my guitars that don't have plastic-coated strings to see how well it works on them. It would be nice to go back to putting $15 strings on my bass and having them last more than a week instead of using the $80 coated Gore Elixers. I'm curious if anyone has ever used it on piano strings or other metal parts and whether it has any uses for our industry? John John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary mailto:john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom
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