Hi Paul, The white residue from the Gel CA is just caused by high humidity and can be easily removed by wiping off after the glue is dry or as you found with 0000 steel wool. The way to keep the dust off the hammers is: 1. Use the original hammer packing paper or newspaper and mask off the hammers, with masking tape, from the back of the hammer to the front. 2. Cut most of the excess shank off with Dremel diamond or fiber disk and the rest with the air grinder we recommend on our website under "Documentation". 3. Use a small drill, by hand, to clean off the debris from the inside of the end of the shank and vacuum out. 4. Remove the paper masking the hammer and you will have nice clean hammers. I have found that Titebond Gel, according to Ferd. Pointer, has a much longer work time and does not have the white residue. I will give more info on this soon. Hope this help, Mark -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of caut-request at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 11:00 AM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: CAUT Digest, Vol 23, Issue 13 Send CAUT mailing list submissions to caut at ptg.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/caut or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to caut-request at ptg.org You can reach the person managing the list at caut-owner at ptg.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CAUT digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Question re-asked.... (Paul T Williams) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:29:55 -0500 From: Paul T Williams <pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> To: CAUTlist <caut at ptg.org> Subject: [CAUT] Question re-asked.... Message-ID: <OFE06762D2.E0B07F7F-ON86257797.005488B5-86257797.005523B3 at unl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi All. I asked a question a couple weeks ago, but maybe nobody received it. After gluing on the new hammers on the new WNG shanks with their newest glue, I got this strange white residue all over the shanks and collars . It cleans off easily enough with some 0000 steel wool, but; What is it???. Also when sawing off the shank ends, it really makes a mess of fine black powder all over the place, most visual on the hammer felt. vacuuming cleaned off most of it, but now the hammers look "dirty". I used a dremmel tool with a fine-cut- cutting blade. Am I doing something wrong, or is this the norm? Thanks in advance for your most humble thoughts. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100907/26e04ea8/attachment. html> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CAUT mailing list CAUT at ptg.org http://ptg.org/mailman/listinfo/caut End of CAUT Digest, Vol 23, Issue 13 ************************************
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