---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi all, Yesterday I had a keytop job that consisted of gluing about 25 ivory keytops back onto an old Vose upright that once belonged to the mayor of San Jose, CA. When he was a toddler, one of the boys had decided that it was fun to flick them off. At least they kept them...:-) With the time I had alotted for the job(about 3 hours), I was only able to get about halfway through. I did much of my work outside, so as not to get too much mess in the house. I think the coolish temperature negatively affected the drying time of the PVC-E glue(with ti-dioxide), so that even though I clamped them for half an hour or so, the edges started to lift a bit when unclamped. What is normal drying time for this glue? I've used it before, and half an hour seemed to be plenty to get the keytop firmly on the key. So that I didn't have to redo my work entirely(and because it's a really old piano that is likely on its last legs), I dripped some ZAP CA glue along the edges that were lifting and held them in place for a few seconds. That actually worked really well. Unfortunately, I the index finger of my left hand on E 44. I remember reading on this list where someone actually used a mixture of CA and PVCE. Does anyone remember that thread? Thanks, Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3d/67/51/ce/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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