This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Removing early plastic, be it celluloid, pyrilin or Ivorine, is a bit of a crapshoot. Most of it will peel off with a flat knife blade under it. My favorites come off in one piece. Some will come off with a warm iron. Steam does not seem to help when I have tried that. Heat the iron hot enough to warm the celluloid and not melt it and it will peel off better. Keyfronts (mostly celluloid), though, are another thing. Sometimes they will not come off for anything. I have had some I had to take off with a blowtorch by actually lighting the celluloid on fire. It burns really fast with LOTS of smoke. Do it outside. Some burn so fast it does not even char the key wood. Some burn too slow and will char the wood. These I use the disk sander and remove the key front that way. Only burn them off if it does no damage. Sometimes sanding them off will catch them afire. It most often not flames but a fast smolder...looks more like a cigarette ash burning. This is not dangerous since it is not explosive, but it REALLY stinks. The smoke can't be a good thing to breathe. D.L. Bullock St. Louis www.thepianoworld.com Put the worlds greatest healer to work for WHATEVER health problem you may have----YOUR OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM. Your body is capable of healing EVERY disease if you give it the right fuel. Visit http://www.mannapages.com/dlbullock to learn how to get the right fuel. Also www.glycoscience.org -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Todd [mailto:pianotech88@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 2:48 PM To: Pianotech Subject: Re: Steinway parts So...do you all still remove the flammable celluloid with the old iron and wet rag? As well as plastic and pyralin? Matthew Joe Garrett <joegarrett@earthlink.net> wrote: David Nereson said: "Some attempts were made in the past to simulate an ivory grain in plastic. The most common was probably "Ivorine," which has striations (faint bluish lines, spaced about a millimeter apart) running the long way through the keytops -- it's kinda hokey and looks not at all like ivory..." David, et al, That is/was not "Ivorine"! That be Celluloid! The flammable, stinky stuff, used in the first part of the 20th Century. Ivorine is the good plastic that many of use replace keytops with. The name "Ivorine" was the trade name used by Tuners Supply and is essentially "Pyralin", which is an Industry name for a specific type of plastic. It is sold by Schaff. Many pianos, even pre-1900 had Celluloid fronts with Ivory tops. The better quality stuff lasts forever, and is the precursor of the Pyralin. K? Best Regards, Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1f/c5/7e/8e/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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