---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Don...Methylated Spirits is a mixture 95%V/V Ethanol and 5% of a NAST= Y=20 tasting liquid to stop the down and outs from drinking it!!! It was used = as a cheap form of a drinking Spirit by homeless drunks.=0D =0D The French polishers use it to create the liquid Schellac for polishing. There is many a story about old French polishers drinking the vile tastin= g stuff!!. =0D =0D I would say in America you would call it something else. Used in every household here in Australia as a cleaning agent.=0D =0D I think the purpose of adding the "Metho' was to thin the Brasso down a b= it.=0D =0D Regards=0D Robin Stevens =0D South Australia=0D =0D -------Original Message-------=0D =0D From: Pianotech=0D Date: 01/14/05 09:54:53=0D To: Pianotech=0D Subject: Re: Polishing White Plastic Key-tops=0D =0D Hi Robin,=0D =0D What is metho?=0D =0D =0D At 08:49 AM 14/01/2005 +1030, you wrote:=0D > In my days at a firm that sold, and serviced Steinways, any key=0D >polishing was done with a foot square slab of scrap half inch hammer fel= t=0D >with Brasso and metho. The felt slab was glued to a board to make = it=0D >portable. Then a small amount of Brasso was put on the felt with the sam= e=0D >amount of metho.=0D =0D Regards,=0D Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.=0D Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat=0D =0D mailto:pianotuna@accesscomm.ca http://us.geocities.com/drpt1948/=0D =0D 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK, S4S 5G7=0D 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner=0D _______________________________________________=0D pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives=0D =2E ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/73/c7/ed/9c/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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