This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Right. Which is why I advocate hide glue. However, aren't fish animals? Oh, I get it now....... "and will STICK with animal glue." Ha, ha, ha, = very clever!!! ;-) Terry Farrell Terry, =20 The experience I have had with fish glue is:- I had to fix up a player = repair done with fish glue only 1 year before coming to me. The player = piano was on the Darling Downs in Queensland, which suffers from low RH = and extreme temperatures for Australia. The fish glue had lost its = adhering power in that the pneumatics were falling of and the valve tops = had come loose. I had to redo the entire action because the original = restorer said there was nothing wrong with it.=20 =20 From this experience I will never entertain the use of fish glue on = pianos and will stick with animal glue. =20 Kerry Cooper Brisbane, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- From: Paul Chick (Earthlink) [mailto:tune4@earthlink.net]=20 Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2005 12:15 AM To: 'Pianotech' Subject: Fish Glue =20 Fish glue....half the price of cold hide glue..same features...taks = faster..ong shelf life. Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:=20 And I've used a small dab of cold hide glue. Seems to work well and = should=20 be as easy as hot hide to remove 87 years later..... Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/3f/ef/b1/c6/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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