"shaving" old key leads

[gordon stelter]

Lead oxidizes even without additives and world wars.
Oxygen oxidizes it. What's wrong with shaving off
offending portion, and painting ends to prevent furher
oxidation? What is best stuff to paint with?
    Thump

--- pianolover 88 <pianolover88@hotmail.com> wrote:
> <Any thoughts how it became oxidised in the first
> place?
> frank &lt;frankbee@dds.nl&gt;>
> 
> Additives like zink and other "hamburger helpers",
> due to the shortage of 
> lead during WWII.
> 
> Terry Peterson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: frank &lt;frankbee@dds.nl&gt;
> Reply-To: Pianotech &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;
> To: PTG &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;
> Subject: Re: &quot;shaving&quot; old key leads
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:11:35 +0100
> 
> How can you be sure that &quot;shaving&quot; old key
> leads isn't harmfull? 
> Maybe some of you like the sweet taste you get in
> your mouth after breathing 
> in the dust, but I think you better be carefull with
> the oxidised lead. Use 
> a good vacuum cleaner when doing the job.
> Any thoughts how it became oxidised in the first
> place? To my knowledge good 
> pure lead lasts thousands of years (the Romans used
> lead piping in their 
> bathhouse in Bath (GB) wich are still intact), so
> why does it oxidise in 
> some piano's? You can even have very good leads and
> very oxidised in one 
> piano, even in one key.
> Impure lead? Something in the wood of the keys?
> 
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