Repeat Business

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Dear Ra,


If that´s glue that swells up a lot, make sure not to use it on delicate
parts that need accurate positioning.


The first time I´ve written to the sun god,

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland 





At 22:04 14.5.2000 -0500, you wrote:
>>Have any of you used "Gorilla Glue" - & if so for what application?
>>ra byn james
>
>That would be the polyurethane stuff, right? It is activated by moisture,
>foams up and fills gaps and all that good stuff. I bought a small bottle of
>something similar, if not that particular flavor of simian stickum, to play
>with. By largely subjective and fundamentally unscientific methods, I
>decided I didn't need to have the other 90% of the bottle cure into a
>wretched mass between the severely limited applications I could justify for
>the first 10%. I glued some strips of maple together, and pried them apart
>a couple of days later without significant damage to the wood. I can't do
>that with Titebond. If I needed gap filling ability over bond strength, I'd
>probably appreciate it more. As it is, I don't see where the stuff does
>anything I need done. 
>
>That's neither an endorsement, nor a condemnation, merely a report of my
>failure to find a worthy use for it in piano work.
>
>Ron N
>
>