[pianotech] tape residue

[David Love]

Try Goof-off

David Love
www.davidlovepianos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Carl Teplitski
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:17 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] tape residue


Terpentine removed most tape residue without affecting the keytop material. 
What
you don't ever use is Acetone, or nail polish.   Most tape used was white 
medical adhesive,
or masking tape, so that names of keys could be written on them.  Longer 
they were on, the
harder to take off.

Carl / Winnipeg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] tape residue


> Barbara Richmond wrote:
>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I was having a look through the archives about removing
>> tape goo from keytops and someone made a reference to a
>> type of key that might get damaged by a solvent. Would that
>> be those old celluloid keys?
>
> Depends on the solvent, doesn't it? I typically use Imperial Cleaner. It's

> reminiscent of lighter fluid, and I haven't run into any keytop that is 
> damaged by the stuff.
>
>
>> Another question about those celluloid keytops. I have a
>> customer with a Baldwin Monarch small upright with
>> many--maybe all--chipped keys. She doesn't want to spring
>> for new keytops, so I was thinking of just filing and
>> making waterfall keys out of them. Will the celluloid file
>> OK?
>
> I've seen a lot of them done successfully. I used to hear them called José

> Iturbi keyboards, because he allegedly had his piano done that way to keep

> the keytop overhang out of his cuffs.
> Ron N