Sandblaster, was: Cleaning actions

[Farrell]

Hazen. What kind of sandblasting setup do you have? Is it an indoor thing with the vacuum and recycling of blasting material? What blasting material do you use? Do you have a picture of your setup? I've been thinking of such a gizmo for a long time.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie; Cleaning actions


> In a message dated 05/05/2002 12:52:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> claudia_cimenti@mail.com writes:
> 
> 
> > 2. A quick question on cleaning actions: The old upright I am restoring has 
> > an extremely dirty action. It is very very dusty. How would you go about 
> > cleaning this? I would be interested in hearining how you would go about 
> > doing this with a minimum set of tools ("the hard way"), or in an 
> > established shop.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hi,
>  You can use an air compressor,leaf blower,or vacumn cleaner to blow out the 
> action.
> I have a sand blaster (inexpensive to make) ,that I use,to clean action 
> parts.Also half ammonia,half water,will get rid of all kinds of dirt,and 
> debris.The sand blaster will also revitalize old crusty,and compressed felt.
> Hazen Bannister
>