You might want to reconsider. The "bare metal" under the paint is rough, porous cast iron that has been coated with stuff called 'way back when "Japanning" : I suspect some sort of coal tar derivative that filled the pores and imperfections in the rough sand-casting. (If you want to see what the plate looked like without it, turn the plate over.) Yes, you could take the plate down to that. But you'd be giving youreslf a big job smoothing it out again. ( Probably with toxic auto-body filler. ) So why bother? If you don't like the look of some letters, try improving them ( after the bronze paint has been removed ) with a little JB weld, or (the thicker) PC7 and careful sanding and filing. (Besides, I suspect that you'd find the lettering beneath the paint as bad or worse than with the paint on it.) Thumpe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120525/ce31d3f5/attachment.htm>
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