Coffee Serendipity cleanup

[Phil Bondi]

David's story has inspired me to share a recent job I had 
involving, we believe, wine:

There was a party at a client's home, and something got 
spilled into the piano. It looked and smelled like wine. The 
bass strings were toast, and needed to be replaced. Most of 
the bass hammers and alot of the bass dampers were affected 
also..stained badly by the spill. My estimate was given to 
the client, and she said do it.

I removed the affected parts.

A call to a few hammer makers revealed that they do not sell 
just bass hammers..OK - time to get creative:

I had to find a way to lift these stains without affecting 
the integrity of the part, and if the integrity was in some 
way affected, then that integrity needed to be returned to 
that part, specifically the hammers.

I remember using Resolve to lift small stains in my 
carpeting..just a little dab on the stain, and it's gone.

hmmmm..

OK - I brought the Resolve down to the shop..poured/spilled 
a little into a hypo oiler..and tried #5 hammer. I'm 
applying a very small amount to this large wine stain, and 
watching it go 'somewhere'. It was dissolving.

OK - I found a way to get out the stain..what about the 
integrity?

I put on the new bass strings, and then put the hammers back 
on..stain-free..armed with hammer hardeners of lacquer and 
acetone/keytop solutions. Much to my surprise, unless I'm 
suddenly going deaf, I only had to add hardener to one 
hammer. I will add that these hammers were originally 
hardened with acetone/keytop, and a small amount one one 
hammer is all I needed.

The dampers were treated with Resolve. They got hard, and 
were softened with alcohol and a little needling.

Alot of people, with good reason, share their action 
re-concoctions and belly work re-configs because they're 
improving on an original design that usually needed it. 
Here's a case where there was no discovery or intense 
studying over numbers. I saved the client money, and the 
client is happy.

-Phil Bondi(Fl)