Fw: Hammer glue

[John Ross]

Hi List,
When I have run across this on a reasonable piano, I prefer to replace all
the hammers.
It would seem to me, that all the hammers, would have the same problem, just
waiting to happen.
If it is a not so good piano, I usually replace the hammer, with a spare
close to the size of the old.
Years ago I had bought a selection of 100 hammers from APSCO, for, I think
it was less than 10c each.
I have thought on making a curved, hinged rough surfaced tool, that could
grab the hammers, and be used to 'fold' them back into position for glueing,
giving them some semblance of tension.
The white, CA glue combination, seems to work.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Clyde Hollinger" <cedel@supernet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Hammer glue


> Ric,
>
> I do the repair this way when needed because it's much more efficient, the
> hammers still all match each other when I'm finished, and the end results
> are satisfactory.  Your response seems to assume two things.  There are a
> lot of spare hammers lying around, and the piano is in a shop.
>
> But I do not have a shop.  When I find this problem I am in someone's
house,
> and since I do not replace sets of hammers, I do not have lots of used
ones
> lying around.  Even if I did, it's going to take some time to find one
that
> matches, and I wouldn't carry all those old hammers around in my car
> anyway.  The piano is usually fair to poor quality and/or condition, so
> regluing the felt is a very acceptable repair in my opinion.
>
> Last month I came across a worn out studio piano with ten hammers like
> this.  Using CA glue it took me 20 minutes to repair all of them.  It
would
> have taken much longer to replace them, and it usually looks pretty bad,
> too.  Of course if the piano had some decent worth, it really should have
a
> whole new set of hammers.
>
> Regards, Clyde
>
> Richard Brekne wrote:
>
> > Never could figure out why anyone would want to bother with this kind of
> > repair, unless perhaps the piano was of some ancient nature that it had
> > unique hammers or something of the sort.
> >
> > With so many spares lying around, why not just pop on a new hammer....
> > needle it to match the voicing well enough, and be done with it ?
> >
> >
> > > Jack Houweling wrote:
> >
> > >     I am trying to glue this hammer felt back on and am having a
> > > problem with the glue.  I have been trying a white glue and clamps but
> > > it does not hold. What kind of glue recommended?
>
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