Comments on: Chrome-Frets Fret And String Polish http://guitarless.com/2009/10/chrome-frets-fret-and-string-polish/ Never Go Guitarless Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:23:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Gerry Hayes http://guitarless.com/2009/10/chrome-frets-fret-and-string-polish/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Gerry Hayes Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:13:56 +0000 http://guitarless.com/?p=357#comment-28 Hi George. While I can't claim to be a chemist, I had been under the understanding that PTFE was safe unless heated to a pretty high temperature. A quick WIKI of this seems to bear this out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene). While you could, if you so wished, make some sort of argument about its use in cookware, I'd probably venture that even seriously fast shredding would not heat your guitar strings to the 350°C (660°F) necessary to cause the PTFE decomposition deemed necessary to ill effects. Hi George. While I can’t claim to be a chemist, I had been under the understanding that PTFE was safe unless heated to a pretty high temperature. A quick WIKI of this seems to bear this out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene). While you could, if you so wished, make some sort of argument about its use in cookware, I’d probably venture that even seriously fast shredding would not heat your guitar strings to the 350°C (660°F) necessary to cause the PTFE decomposition deemed necessary to ill effects.

]]> By: George Putnam http://guitarless.com/2009/10/chrome-frets-fret-and-string-polish/comment-page-1/#comment-26 George Putnam Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:24:22 +0000 http://guitarless.com/?p=357#comment-26 PTFE (Teflon) is very toxic. http://www.pristineplanet.com/newsletter/2006/05.asp PTFE (Teflon) is very toxic.

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