Enlightenment

Susan Kline sckline@home.com
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 08:20:18 -0700


What dollar value do you place on having your liver work?
CA glue when curing can emit cyanide gas. Trichloroethylene
is highly toxic. I use CA, but in drops, not ounces. "Trike"
I don't use at all. Somehow the pianos still survive, and so
do I.

Susan

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At 01:26 PM 09/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>   One reason for not using the usual
> > accelerator, 1-1-1
> > Trichlorethelyne, (not sure about that spelling) is that it is toxic
> > and
> > causes the CA glue to emit highly toxic fumes.
>         If trichlorethelyne is actually an acellerator, it can be 
> purchased for
>about $10 per quart at hardware stores, used as a solvent for cleaning.
>One of the local rebuilders uses it a lot to clean the green gunk out of
>bushings, since carbon tetrachloride isn't available.  If one is going to
>"accelerate" the CA glue, it's sure cheaper by the quart than the little
>one or two oz. bottles.
>les bartlett
>houston



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