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RE: And *How* Many Gumballs For My Keys?

Author: willie
Date: 2001-07-16 03:41

Nail polish remover is just acetone. We sell it in pts., qts., and gallons to various "nail shops" around here who then pour it into the fancy bottles they use in front of their customers. I use it for cleaning too sometimes but be careful with it on a plastic clarinet as it will melt and ruin the shiney finnish on some. I too am curious about the plating on some of the newer clarinets as I have some that are quite old and the keys still show no wear. The most expencive (time consuming man-hours) part of the plating process is the polishing and buffing of the part before and after each layer of plating. It seems to me with all the expence of this, they could leave the parts in the plating solution just a tad bit longer to get more metal to buff and last longer.

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