key bushing glue experiment

Paul Chick tunenbww@clear.lakes.com
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:14:13 -0600


Susan
You are right about the viscosity. Experiment a little more. I like the
brass cauls from Pianotek. They can be heated after installation to size and
iron the felt as well as set the hide glue to a uniform "backing" the is
stiffer than white glue.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Kline" <sckline@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:45 PM
Subject: Re: key bushing glue experiment

> I've had people tell me that I should use hot hide glue for keybushings
>
> with the white glue, which I usually use, instead of the hot hide. This
> might be because I had no experience with the hot hide glue, so I may
> not have used the right viscosity.
>
> Susan
>



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