Titanium Oxide

[Tom Cole]

I seem to remember someone at the Detroit convention describing a similar repair but
using white-out (correction fluid) to whiten the keystick. The stuff seems pretty crumbly
when you paint it on paper but I'm guessing the CA glue binds it all together.

Tom Cole


Bill Maxim wrote:
>
> Mark and list:
>
> You wrote
> >about using titanium oxide to whiten hide glue.
> >I have used it with some success on non glue wafer ivory sets.
> >The problems arise with very white ivory that is fairly
> >translucent. The color of the glue takes away from that
> >snow white. The result is either somewhat blotchy or
> >slightly yellowed.
>
> I asked Ed Dryburgh whether it would be possible to whiten CA glues for
> attaching translucent ivory.  From his suggestion I have come up with
> the following procedure for gluing ivories back on in the customer's
> home.
>
> After cleaning ivory and key as usual, I take the ivories out to my
> car, lay out newspaper over the boxes in my trunk, and spray white
> aerosol paint on the gluing surface of the ivories.  Back in the house,
> I apply gap-filling CA glue to the key (no accelerator!) and without
> waiting for the paint to dry I carefully line up the ivory and press in
> place.  Expect the ivory to want to go slideways and be prapared to
> slide it back.  In a very few seconds it is set.  I have yet to have
> any discoloration show through, and I am very fussy on that.
>
> Bill Maxim, RPT, Piano Technicians Guild    wmaxim@gnn.com
> Serving South Carolina from Columbia and Greer
>
> .-

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Thomas A. Cole, RPT
Santa Cruz, California