>I wonder if people who hang hammers in piano factories consider themselves >to be "Glue-collar" workers? > >Tom Seay, RPT and in India they have Blue Cholera and White Cholera .................... eh??? >Is the PVCE glue that you can get from hardware store? > >- Jonsky Available from Schaff Pianner Supply. The glue in hardware stores that is similar sounding is PVC glue used to glue PVC pipe together. I've tried using this to hold keytops also. BAD CHOICE. It eats plastic keytops with no delay. If used for long periods of time in small enclosed areas one catches a rather nasty buzz off the stuff. >From: bbarasa@tbcnet.com (Barb Barasa) >Just out of curiosity, why DID you glue that beer bottle to that copper?? :-) Well Barb, if ya really gotta know, I built my own variable capacitor for an antenna tuner out of two pieces of copper clad phenolic for a ham radio project. It worked very well except I kept getting RF burns on my finger tips when I'd slide the two pieces of Copper Clad for adjustment purposes. These burns really stinked up the normally classy joint I live in and so after numerous little burns (some of us are slow learners) I finished drinking my beer (glass bottle) and glued that puppy on the copper clad to effect an insulated handle. It worked most goodestly. (remember, you asked why!!!) > >Also, the original topic of this was gluing ivories (as opposed to plastic). >I've always used contact cement, but is there a problem with it reacting to >ivories also? > Well, glueing ivory has been covered by a few on the list and a bunch of them use glue wafers, hot hide glue, and the like. I've been using Super Glue for a few years and have enjoyed excellent results. Cyanoacrylate sticks your little pinkies together quite effectively and without hesitation. That tells me that mayhaps body parts react favorably with the bonding process. Ivory, being a body part of an Elephant (no not your inlaw's, although ......hmmmm.), reacts very similar to that of glueing your tender little pinkies together. FAST and FIRM!!! I clean the surface of both the underside of the ivory, and the key. If the glue wafer has turned dark from dirty pinkies touching it, it will need to be cleaned until it is white again, or a small amount of white spray paint will do the job. The paint need not be applied so heavy as to totally cover, just enough to get the idea across through the ivory. Most ivories are translucent and so they will take on the basic idea of the color behind them. Five drops of Cyanoacrylate on the key in the pattern found on a 5 of whatever playing card (four corners plus the center) keeping your distance from the junction of the tail and the head. You want the glue to "travel" when you press the ivory on, but no so much so that it will come oozing up the "seam" at the head/tail junction. For really quick bonding spray some accelerator on the underside of the ivory. Do this some distance away from your open bottle of Cyanoacrylate or any exposed glue. Position the head with the tail holding the ivory at an angle tilting up from the key. Press firmly into place and hold. By the time you pick up your file to clean up the edges, the glue is hard and ready to go. If you prefer some working time, don't use the accelerator. There are different thicknesses of this stuff, water thin being the quickest and a medium bodied glue that takes about 15 seconds or so and then a heavy bodied glue that is good for filling gaps like those found in my neighbors kid's head!! >Barb B. [dah, like does duh B stand for BABE hey??] I'm not sure who wrote about: > >Polyestermites were created by a laboratory for the CIA to use during the >early years of the cold war against the Soviet Union and their emerging >plastics technology. I ask you if you have ever seen this dimpling on Ivories? but it shows good solid raisening and should be put on a talk show somewhere. Don't they sell chocolate covered Polyestermites in GOORMET shops somewhere?? My wife often drags me in them stupid places to make me learn how to be bored without actually showing it. Oh well, I think I'll tell the servants they can go for the evening, and I'll find my way up to the slumber chamber for a bit of rest. Lar Larry Fisher RPT, Metro Portland, Oregon's Factory Preferred Installer for MSR/PianoDisc Products phone 360-256-2999 or email larryf@pacifier.com http://pacifier.com/~larryf/homepage.html (revised 5/96) Beau Dahnker pianos work best under water
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