Years ago I had a buddy who used to boil his strings in a pot of water for about 10 mins before installing them , he played in a working band and played 5-6 nights a week all year long , he swore that it gave him incredable tuning stability especially on the g , he would religiously boil his strings after about 3-4 nights playing and always kept a set of boiled strings in his case for emergency ... anybody ever try it ... think i'll give it a whirl ... 6S9L