CA glue on loose hammers

[Avery]

John, IMO you're not going to have to "steam the dickens" out of 
them, considering
what you said you had left. Just go ahead and steam them normally and 
then rebush.
It might even "correct" any pulley keys you have on the center rail! :-)

Avery

At 12:18 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote:
>Hmmm...this "vinegar trick" sounds like it will work in my odd application:
>"eaten" key bushings.  The piano I'm working on (learning experience) has NO
>complete bushings (front rail--some on center rail are intact), only spots
>left here and there.  I'm thinking targeted hypo-application of vinegar
>instead of steaming the dickens out of the mortise to get the specks.
>Thoughts?
>John
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
>Of Isaac Sadigursky
>Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:09 AM
>To: Pianotech List
>Subject: RE: CA glue on loose hammers
>
>Some clarification about the Vinegar Trick...I had learned it from late Bob
>Russell,RPT.It's applicable to remove loose hammers for regluing,works in
>about 20 seconds..Or,to reglue hammers,as Geoff said,just apply it and leave
>it alone.The glue will get re-juvenaited and it works..Loose furniture
>pieces,especially,chairs,were fixed quickly by application of accidy
>substances,and vinegar is one of them.It should be tried on an old klunker
>to make you a believer in this trick.It works on modern glues in Asian
>pianos,as well.Doing it that way saves time in re-alighning and "nursing"
>the hammers.Hope,it helps..Isaac