Thanks for posting this. I bought those nice scrapers that Pianotek sells. I have a square grand to strip. I started messing with the scrapers and it sure seems to me that this will work very well indeed. Good to hear someone else has used this approach. I guess that as long as you don't feel the need to get every last spec of stuff out of the grain (and I don't on this job) it should work fine. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@attbi.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:49 AM Subject: Re: Water-Base Laquer > At 10:15 PM 6/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >The stripper I use is very NASTY methylene chloride based stuff. But it is > >happy to be washed off with water. I wish I could tell you why. It works > >quite well though. I have tried one type of "natural orange stripper" and > >it performed poorly. I have four gallons of that still. You want it? > > > >Terry Farrell > > I have found that scraping is both non-toxic and faster than chemical removers. > No dry time. > > However, on highly figured surfaces a liquid remover is necessary. > Regards, > > Jon Page, piano technician > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. > mailto:jonpage@attbi.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >
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