CA and Bridge Pins

[Susan Kline]

At 11:10 AM 10/19/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 10/18/2000 11:20:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>sckline@home.com writes:
>
> > Wiping off
> >  the area after a few seconds, maybe breathing on it or rubbing it with
> >  a little white glue to set it up,
>
>Greetings Susan,
>As clever as the white glue discovery is for tacking two things together,
>that's not the intent here. The CA is being used as a filler, and the ideal
>situation would be for it to fill the bridge pin holes level with the bridge,
>replacing only the space around the pin. Any additional goop/sticky/compound
>would seem to be superfluous at best.
>Cheers,
>Bob Davis


Hi, Bob

Actually, I've been looking at the results of mixing the two glues, but I
need to do more. If there is plenty of space, and plenty of both glues, it
turns to a sort of hard froth. I haven't checked over time to see if it
hardens further in a day or more.

If the CA has wicked into the holes, it shouldn't end up being goopy, but
should turn to a pretty hard material. The question is whether a thin
smear of white glue to quicken its set time would end up gummy. Maybe
not ... or possibly, it might be easy to remove later. I doubt that the
white glue would penetrate the CA past the surface of the bridge, but who
knows?

I think I have a hunk of bridge off an old, long-dead piano. If I can find
it, I'll try experimenting with it, and see what I get.

Regards,

Susan