Verdigris and Goof-Off

[Tom Driscoll]

David,
    Tried it --Sometimes works great and sometimes not.
As with most of these attempts at solving the vexing verdigris visitation 
permanent success is a crap shoot.
    Mr Bondi has suggested a heat gun which I have yet to try and I also 
picked up some brake cleaner for my next experiment .
    Tom Driscoll
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net>
To: "'Pianotech List'" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:20 PM
Subject: Verdigris and Goof-Off


> While removing some action parts with light verdigris today I had this
> brainstorm to put a couple drops of Goof-Off on them to see what happened.
> I was surprised to find that the loosened up almost immediately.  Reading
> the ingredients I found that Goof-Off contains Xylene so I tried that 
> which
> worked almost as well.  These parts were not that heavy with verdigris and
> I'm wondering if anyone has any parts with heavy verdigris available that
> they could try this experiment on--or has anybody tried this particular
> solvent and with what success over the long term.
>
> David Love
> davidlovepianos at comcast.net
> www.davidlovepianos.com
>
>