Cleaning Up Contact Cement

[Elian Degen J.]

Acetone and Touluol are very fast for it, what I do not know is their effect
on ivory ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@sover.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 9:39 PM
Subject: Cleaning Up Contact Cement


> Call it Karma. After years of pasting ivories back onto a Steinway
> keyboard with contact cement, I am now doing an ivory restoration on
> it. So what's the solvent which will loosen  this stuff up so that I
> can get back down to bare wood and naked ivory?
>
> I've already heard the lectures in my mind's ear, just the solution,
please.
>
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter
>
> "May you work on interesting pianos."
>      ...........Ancient Chinese Proverb
>