Regarding cleaning the corroded strings--- I don't know what others think
but there seems to be a reaction against cleaning many metals with steel
wool these days as it leaves micro particles that can interact with other
metals, even other iron alloys,  and commence electrolytic corrosion. For
many, Scotch Brite has now taken the place of steel wool. In aircraft
repair use of steel wool on the hull is taboo and we always used Scotch
Brite.  I use the latter when cleaning piano strings.

cheers
fritz



On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Martin Spaink <
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> Hi all, I've run into some corrosion problems. I previously prepared
> looped spares, and sorted these in paper envelopes, only to find them
> corroded later.
> This leads to two questions:
> 1 how to best clean them? I have lots of ideas here, but I'd like to see
> what others have done to good results.
> 2 what to keep spares in if not paper envelopes?
> best regards, martin
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