>I always glue my own hammers. I drill the hammers and then ream them, so, that the holes are slightly bigger than the shanks. The hammers are supposed to even wobble on the shank. I then use a white glue, an expanding glue (exactly the same glue Yamaha uses for that purpose) which completely fills up the extra space around the shank. That way it will give me 'some' time to position the hammer. After one minute it is completely solid and it remains like that. That is the factory procedure and it works like a charm. It gives us a little time to fiddle around with the hammer head and at the same time we have a very tight and strong connection.< Andr? - May I ask what brand of white glue? I use hot animal hide glue, but am wondering about alternatives. Chuck Behm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090607/7e17c095/attachment.htm>
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