Hi Stephane, On a two week trip to Japan this summer I tried my best to find CA glur we use here in the states. All efforts to different shops resulted in negative results. Even took an empty bottle and my daughter in law to translate for me. It may be that in Japan the glue is banned due to its chemical properties and toxic aroma. And I have an idea that there may be other things that we or you use that are not available to you or us as the case might be. We have also found that hand tool models can be readily available in one contry and not in another and finding the manufacture is difficult and does not always result in finding the correct tool even if you do. Ah such is life <(O(( Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr@srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stéphane Collin" <collin.s@skynet.be> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Epoxy glue in Europe ? > Hello all. > > After reading posts about happy use of epoxy glue to repair loose bridge > pins, I have tried this on a piano which had quite large cracks (2 mm) at > the pin holes on the bass bridge (the pins were vertical). > > It was a disaster. > > I mixed the two components, heated the pins, let the glue go down into the > crack, let rest for a whole day, then put the string back in place, and was > happy for about 6 hours, after what, unhappy to see that the pins were back > again in their vertical position. > Makes me think we don't talk about the same epoxy glue. > I used Araldite 2013 (medium fast hardening gap filling for wood and metal), > as West System epoxy is hard to find here. > Any idea about what went wrong ? > Any clue about a product easy to find on the old continent ? > > Thanks in advance. > > Stéphane Collin. > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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