What is "Metho"?

[Cy Shuster]

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MessageSounds exactly like denatured alcohol: ethanol plus something to =
stop people drinking it (or is it methanol?).

--Cy Shuster--
Bluefield, WV
  ----- Original Message -----=20
  From: Alan=20
  To: 'Pianotech'=20
  Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:04 PM
  Subject: RE: What is "Metho"?


  What language, exactly, are we speaking here, Mate? Fair dinkum it =
ain't. Never heard of this here metho stuff. Here in the Northern =
Hemisphere, we prefer tasty cleaning solvents.=20
  And youse guys and us guys obviously butcher, mangle, twist, and =
torture the King's English in distinctly different ways. He put metho in =
his brasso, slipped in the batho, and fell on his ... uh ... rubber =
duckie?

  Alan R. Barnard
  Silly Sayings from Salem, MO
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    From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] =
On Behalf Of Robin Stevens
    Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 7:29 PM
    To: Pianotech
    Subject: What is "Metho"?


           Hi Don...Methylated Spirits is a mixture 95%V/V Ethanol and =
5% of a NASTY  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.

          The French polishers use it to create the liquid Schellac for =
polishing. There is many a story about old French polishers drinking the =
vile tasting stuff!!.=20

          I would say in America you would call it something else. Used =
in every household here in Australia as a cleaning agent.

          I think the purpose of adding the "Metho' was to thin the =
Brasso down a bit.

          Regards
          Robin Stevens=20
          South Australia

          -------Original Message-------

          From: Pianotech
          Date: 01/14/05 09:54:53
          To: Pianotech
          Subject: Re: Polishing White Plastic Key-tops

          Hi Robin,

          What is metho?


          At 08:49 AM 14/01/2005 +1030, you wrote:
          >       In my days at a firm that sold, and serviced =
Steinways, any key
          >polishing was done with a foot square slab of scrap half inch =
hammer felt
          >with Brasso and metho.       The felt slab was glued to a =
board to make it
          >portable. Then a small amount of Brasso was put on the felt =
with the same
          >amount of metho.

          Regards,
          Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
          Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat

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