Duaine, This reply is off-list. I use a potpourri pot (looks like a tiny crockpot) with just enough water to float a clean tuna can with my hot hide glue in it. You can set it up in a customer's home easily and have glue ready in a few minutes. I save my used glue in the can, let it dry, and reconstitute by adding a bit of water when I need to use it. (Throw it away if it gets moldy instead of drying properly.) I changed from Titebond to hot hide glue when I did a set of hammers for a Kimball grand and got a spectacular tone improvement. The little pot looks innocent, so the customer is not offended by or afraid of a messy glue pot. Another nice thing about the potpourri pot--you can put some real potpourri into it after finishing with the gluing and cover the smell! John Ashcraft, RPT On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> wrote: > So, since I don't have a real shop - just my basement - and I need to > replace hammers on an upright piano ....... > > At a customers' home, I'm supposed to drag, setup and use a hide glue pot > to hang the hammers ..... > > I don't think so.... just sayin' > > FWIW, I've started to use fish glue. > > Duaine > > -- > Duaine Hechler > Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ > Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding > Reed Organ Society Member > Florissant, MO 63034 > (314) 838-5587 > dahechler at att.net > www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com > -- > Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120320/8773a906/attachment.htm>
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