I recently went back on a hanging job I had done and found bad glue joints. The customer had a 25 watt dehumidifier rod plugged in the action (rod sitting right above the keys.) I suspect that did it. Lance Lafargue, RPT New Orleans Chapter Covington, LA. lafargue@iamerica.net ---------- > From: REALPIANOS@aol.com > To: pianotech@ptg.org > Subject: bad liquid hide glue > Date: Sunday, September 14, 1997 10:29 PM > > I once hung a set of hammers with cold liquid hide glue (franklin ) because > > I was out of hot hide glue and I wanted to get the job done (expediently). > lesson > learned, it wound up being (expensively) for me. > > When I went back a few months later for a touch up regulation , to my shock > and horror, the hammers were radically misaligned. I re hung them with hot > hide glue . They have been fine since. (3 years ) > > The piano is in a virtual glass room it receives A LOT of direct sun light. > I guess what must have happened is maybe the direct sunlight melted the > glue, or maybe the glue had become degraded somehow prior to using it. > Or both ? > I wonder if this has ever happened to anyone else ? > > Tom Ayers > >
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