Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS) DEFENSE

[RON MAY, RPT]

Thank you for the correction Barbara and for a great idea---"SWIFTER"  SOUND
BOARD CLEANER---
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57@flash.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 6:48 AM
Subject: Re: Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS) DEFENSE


> Hey Ron,
>
> It's Swiffer.  Two fs.  Look at the box.  ;-)
>
> www.swiffer.com
>
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> somewhere near Peoria, IL
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "RON MAY, RPT" <ronmay_rpt@bellsouth.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS) DEFENSE
>
>
> > IN DEFENSE OF THE SWIFTER PADS.
> >
> > I just pulled my wife's (correction our) box of wet sifters to check
> > ingredients. All it says is that it contains no phosphate. I does go on
to
> > advertise that it is great for "Virtually all floors including WOOD" and
> > advises that the dry Swifter be used prior to the wet. There is a number
> to
> > call for more information which I will do Monday out of curiosity and
will
> > let you know. If used with a little bit of care, the Swifter pad (both
wet
> > and dry) lays flat on the soundboard surface and is easily moved over
the
> > soundboard with no contact with the strings. The dry Swifter does
attract
> > and pick up almost all the dust. I don't know how dirty the soundboards
> are
> > that you all are cleaning but usually the boards I get into cleaning are
> so
> > dirty that they are way past being damaged with a little silicone.
Swifter
> > sure beats the bucket and a bunch of rags and the air compressor scares
me
> > to death.. When you find some old clunker that you can't hurt----
> >
> > "TRY IT YOU'LL LIKE IT".
> >
> > Ron May
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Joseph Garrett" <joegarrett@earthlink.net>
> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> > Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 6:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: Soundboard Cleaning (SWIFTER PADS)
> >
> >
> > > Ron May said: "I recently tgried something new cleaning soundboards
and
> it
> > > worked great.
> > > Swifter pads......."
> > >
> > > Yikes! If I'm not mistaken, those things have Silicone in them! Not
> > > something I want any where near a piano. Because they are not a food
> item,
> > > they are not required to list the "ingredients", so beware. Swifter is
> > made
> > > by the Pledge people, therefore I would not get any of their product
> near
> > a
> > > piano. Wellll, that's just me.<G>
> > > Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)
> > > Captain, Tool Police
> > > Squares Are I
> > >
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