bad liquid hide glue

[Lance Lafargue]

I recently went back on a hanging job I had done and found bad glue joints.
 The customer had a 25 watt dehumidifier rod plugged in the action (rod
sitting right above the keys.)  I suspect that did it.
Lance Lafargue, RPT
New Orleans Chapter
Covington, LA.
lafargue@iamerica.net

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> From: REALPIANOS@aol.com
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: bad liquid hide glue
> Date: Sunday, September 14, 1997 10:29 PM
> 
> I once hung a set of hammers with cold liquid hide glue  (franklin ) 
because
> 
> I was out of hot hide glue and I wanted to get the job done
(expediently).
> lesson
> learned, it wound up being (expensively) for me. 
> 
> When I went back a few months later for a touch up regulation , to my
shock
> and horror, the hammers were radically misaligned. I re hung them with
hot
> hide glue .  They have been fine since. (3 years )
> 
> The piano is in a virtual glass room it receives A LOT of direct sun
light.
> I guess what must have happened is maybe the direct sunlight melted the 
> glue,  or maybe the glue had become degraded somehow prior to using it. 
> Or both ?
> I wonder if this has ever happened to anyone else ?
> 
> Tom Ayers  
> 
>