I finally did it ...

[Susan Kline]

Dear List, 

I finally did it. I used the two-glue trick to 
glue my fingers together. [you can laugh now, I 
don't mind.] 

You see [she said, trying to seem less like a 
moron] I was gluing rubber buttons in on a 
Steinway A [note: she was working on a good 
piano!] and I had a little bit of the white glue 
left on my finger while I was putting the CA 
glue onto the rubber button. The button, without 
any excess squeeze out, ended up firmly attached 
to the case, and my left forefinger was, apparently, 
indissolubly wedded to the side of my thumb. (at 
least, a divorce would have occasioned a lot of 
pain.) 

I then discovered that the little tube of jelled 
acetone (kept in my kit for that purpose) had gradually 
dried up, so nothing was left of it. So, I went to 
the car, and in my cleaning kit I have a plastic 
bottle of nail polish remover, with the bottle kept 
in a ziploc bag. This, after several minutes of effort, 
restored independent motion to my finger and thumb, but 
I did notice that the bottle, left 3/4 full, now had 
only 1/4 left. 

So, the drift of my cautionary tale: don't assume you 
have acetone with you unless you check it now and then, 
or unless your containers are tighter than mine. 

Susan 

P.S. I now understand how the rubber buttons feel (if 
they could feel) being trapped in those holes. My fingers 
were _definitely_ more stuck together than they get 
when I'm gluing keytops with plain CA.