K&M 16280 GITARREN-WANDHALTER - Svensk International Cyberstore

K&M 16280 guitar wall hanger - screw-mount, features flexible support arms for various guitar models, covered with protective non-marring rubber. Weight: 0.2kg (Not suitable for nitro lacquered guitars.)

Does anybody care to explain this to a tired swed ??

[scott from _actual time_]

Originally Posted by Desecrated

...covered with protective non-marring rubber. Weight: 0.2kg (Not suitable for nitro lacquered guitars.)

nitro contains tons of organic solvents. that's "organic" in the chemistry meaning, not in the hippie-food meaning.

in a nitro finish, trace amounts of these nasty solvents are still evaporating out of the lacquer for a very long time after it feels dry--6 months or more. organic solvents, particularly the nasty ones in nitro, can melt plastic and rubber. so if you hung a nitro-finished guitar from a rubber hanger, with that hanger in contact with the nitro finish 24-7, the trace amounts of solvent still leaking out of the finish could melt the rubber to the guitar and spoil the finish there.

O shit.

Thanks for the fast response.

[scott from _actual time_]

Originally Posted by Desecrated

O shit.

Thanks for the fast response.

no problem.

all that matters is the finish on the part of the guitar that will be touching the hanger. if it's a wall hanger and only the body is finished with nitro, like my homemade S7, then no worries.

btw, this also applies with recently nitro-ed bodies and storing them in a case. i've heard of nitro reacting with the "fur" lining a guitar case, and even that "fur" leaving tons of tiny little marks in the nitro clearcoat.

[bostjan]

My dad nitro-lacquered a bass once and set it in a stand about a month after it was sprayed. It is now permanently bonded to the stand. Seriously.