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Cleaning Screws
By Joel Cluskey

Is there any efficient way to clean your typical lightly corroded and
rusted screws that come out of a player piano when it is being rebuilt?
I find the cleaning process to be one of the more time consuming jobs.
I chuck them individually into my cordless drill, drive them into #0000
steel wool, then drive them into a soft cloth to buff them to a mirror
shine.  Final solvent cleaning and lacquer protects them for the long
term.

I have seen these tumbler type cleaning tools that remind me of the rock
tumblers we had as a child which would polish rocks to a mirror finish.
Can these effectively be used to clean a pile of screws?  Are there
other more effective ways to accomplish this task?  Any thoughts, or
cautions, would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Joel Cluskey
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


(Message sent Sun 27 Mar 2005, 17:43:53 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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