[CAUT] The last word was Re: gorilla glue

[Willem Blees]

After reading all of the problems with this stuff, we should ask the 
same question Michelle is asking. Why have it? Even if there are some 
uses for it, I think we all agree that gluing hammers to shanks is 
the last thing we would want to do. 

Wim 

Quoting Michelle Stranges <stranges at oswego.edu>:

> Reading all of these posts....and now this about having to grow new 
> 
> skin to cover the stain it'll make???  * what is the point of this  
> stuff?*
> Should we even have it in the shop?
> I vote no.
> 
> (I *do* have a very small bottle at home but I have not yet used it. 
> 
> Don't know if I will..)
> 
> JMHO...
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Richard Murphy wrote:
> 
> > HI Don,
> >     Be careful not to get any on your skin because it will stain  
> > your fingers brown and it doesn’t wash off, you have to wait until 
> 
> > your fingers grow new skin (about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks).  You put the 
> 
> > glue on one surface and wet the other with water, then fit the  
> > parts together and clamp them strongly because the glue foams up  
> > and will push the two pieces apart.  You will have to clean up the 
> 
> > foam from the outside afterwards.  Definitely not the glue to use 
> 
> > on parts that need replacing.
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > On 11/9/06 10:31 AM, "Wigent, Donald E" <WIGENTD at ecu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Say gang: tell me about this glue, Can I handle it or is it like 
> 
> >> CA and would it be good for cracked bridges. What is it good for? 
> 
> >> Maybe broken leggs or ripped out lid hinges?
> >> Don Wigent
> >> E C U
> >>
> >> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>  
> >> Of Jim Busby
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:31 PM
> >> To: College and University Technicians
> >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue
> >>
> >> Thanks Dale. Of course, I was hoping you’d have some magic solvent
>  
> >> or voodoo for me. What an awful glue

> >>
> >> Jim Busby BYU
> >>
> >> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>  
> >> Of Ward & Probst, Inc
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:15 AM
> >> To: 'College and University Technicians'
> >> Subject: Re: [CAUT] gorilla glue
> >>
> >>
> >> Jim,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I think you'll have to cut the hammers off to save the shanks. I'd
>  
> >> use a band saw to remove as much as possible. then whittle off the
>  
> >> rest. I am pretty sure that poly glue is not susceptible to  
> >> solvents after it sets. All that said, you'd have enough time in 
> 
> >> the job to have to weigh it against the cost of new parts,  
> >> particularly if the original parts need repining, etc. I'd guess 
> 
> >> it'd would take two to three hours to clean up the old shanks.  
> >> Unless they are unusual or costly shanks, that would be at least 
> 
> >> half the way to new parts.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Good luck,
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> Dale E. Probst, RPT
> >>
> >> Ward & Probst, Inc.
> >>
> >> Wichita Falls, TX
> >>
> >> mailto:dale at wardprobst.com
> >>
> >> www.wardprobst.com <http://www.wardprobst.com/>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On  
> >>> Behalf Of Jim Busby
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:36 AM
> >>> To: College and University Technicians
> >>> Subject: [CAUT] gorilla glue
> >>> List,
> >>>
> >>> All the talk of glue brings me to this problem/question. Someone 
> 
> >>> used gorilla glue to hang some hammers that I want to remove and 
> 
> >>> I can’t find ANYTHING that will work. I know I could simply buy 
> 
> >>> new shanks and flanges, but does anyone know of anything that’s 
> 
> >>> works on this stuff??
> >>>
> >>> Thanks.
> >>>
> >>> Jim Busby BYU
> >>
> >
> 
> 


Willem Blees, RPT
Piano Tuner/Technician
School of Music
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, AL USA