Hello Mike
Ian Corrigan recommends lemon oil as a pleasant, not too viscious
cleaning liquid.
It also, he reckons, gives wood a near invisible but protective coat. I
haven't tried it but think it might be worth a try. The border pipes he
made for Paul Martin are a visual and sonic delight so I'm very happy
to take his word on this.
Anthony
--- On Fri, 14/1/11, Mike Dixon <msdi...@btinternet.com> wrote:
From: Mike Dixon <msdi...@btinternet.com>
Subject: [NSP] Re: [nsp] re-conditioning ...
To: "'Northumbrian Small Pipes'" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Friday, 14 January, 2011, 11:49
The walking site I use tells me it denatured alcohol you put what we
would
call a meths stove
Mike
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Sent: 14 January 2011 11:32
To: Victor Eskenazi
Cc: Northumbrian Small Pipes
Subject: [NSP] Re: [nsp] re-conditioning ...
On 13 Jan 2011, Victor Eskenazi wrote:
> for the verdigris. . . in this country we have a clear liquid ...
> "rubbing" or isopropyl alcohol. turns out it works to get rid of
the
> green
IPA will degrease everything in sight, but is a bit drastic. Sold in
the UK
as a
computer cleaning fluid. Good for degreasing springs and metal slots,
but
it'll
take oil out of your wrappings too which you don't want.
The one we have in the UK is a form of ethyl alcohol which has been
adulterated so
it can't be drunk.
Could someone fluent in both forms of English translate "methylated
spirit"
into
USA-speak, please?
> until now i have used, i thought successfully - cold press, extra
> virgin, olive oil.
aaaaaaargh! No wonder.
If you must use olive oil you want the cheapest, nastiest, hot presssed
clear
cheapy variety - the exact reverse of what you have used.
Or use neatsfoot oil (from a saddlers, but make sure it's pure oil, not
neatsfoot
compound which has water in it). Or liquid paraffin/mineral oil / baby
oil /
baby
gel (another terminology minefield)
> a while ago i remember there was some discussion of oils. . .
And then another one, and then another one. Its one of the recurrent
topics.
Julia
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