To reply to Susan Kline's query: I've read a post recently in which someone managed to break letoff button screws after too much CA. I haven't tried CA for that application yet. But I'm not afraid. I think the key is getting the right amount of glue for the application. There are some applications I've used that I haven't heard mentioned: tightening rattling grand lid prop and lid hinge pins, stopping clicking hammer birdseyes when they are cracked (yes, it can be done without seizing the flange), keeping grand wippen butterfly spring pins from working out (I tried this after following someone's suggestion to cut the center pin at both ends. This allegedly would keep the pin from working out. That didn't work for me, but the CA held fine.) One failure I've had recently: I used CA to glue a broken key button. It didn't work. I resorted to Tightbond(sp?) It had been glued before. Perhaps the CA didn't like the old glue on the broken surfaces. Bob Anderson Tucson, AZ
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