Rebushing centers/mystery center pinning

[Don]

Hi Barbara,

It won't blow up. However CA glue is already a "wetting agent"--and I think
that acetone sinks into felt pretty well too--so I don't quite see the
point in the alcohol. Also unless you have 200 proof alcohol there will be
water in it--and water makes CA glue cure.

Water doesn't penetrate felt well at all--but alcohol does--and the two are
"misseable" (i.e. one liter of water + one liter of alcohol = 1.98 liters
of fluid). The reason we use alcohol with water for shrinking solution is
because of the wetting agent properties of alcohol. 

If the flanges are too loose...then water in the mix should make them even
looser--that is if it doesn't cause the CA glue to cure *extra fast*.

At 10:11 PM 09/12/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Do you think if I did some tests on pieces of bushing cloth, I'd be able
to tell 
>anything?  I was thinking in particular about the 90/10 acetone/ CA mix
and also 
>trying out some with a bit of methyl alcohol mixed in, too.  Does anybody
know if 
>I'll blow up or pass out or anything?  (That last one is the important
one, I'm 
>not a chemist.)

Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.P.T.
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