Verdigris and Goof-Off

[J Patrick Draine]

I believe Willis & David Snyder "tried everything" including cleaning fluids
such as Xylene, and gave them all flunking grades. That's not to say one
can't get partial or temporary results, but nothing that could be depended
on in the high end of the market. This included rebushing the afflicted
flanges -- the goo could leach out of the wood in to the new bushing
cloth!Sometimes
I get good results with ProTek, but parts replacment is the only true cure.
Patrick Draine

On 10/20/07, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
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