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Re: Cleaning the keys

Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2006-05-26 15:35

Cleaning can be done by hand brushing (soft brush for silver!) with solvents (one possibility being water plus detergents), or with an ultrasonic cleaner, which is expensive if it has an appropriate wave-form, frequency, etc which are not damaging.

Removal of tarnish, and polishing, can be done by hand (very time consuming) or by buffing. Buffing done with care is the same as hand polishing but a lot quicker. However if it is done carelessly, it can remove significant metal, bend metal parts, throw keys around the room, and seriously damage the operator. A buffing machine is potentially quite dangerous.

An alternative, very effective method of polishing:

http://www.krausmusic.com/polishin/polishsy.htm
I imagine it is pretty expensive.

Incidentally you will learn quite a bit about repairs by reading right through the Kraus site. Kraus is a major supplier of repair gear, but supplies only to repair businesses.

http://www.krausmusic.com/index.htm#HomeIndex

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