> At the risk of being lynched, burnt at the cross or forced to listen > to rap music, I feel I must question why someone would use any other > glue than hide glue on WEAR items. WEAR items being bushings > especially. Bushings are replaced so often one could make a good > living solely replacing them, and when they are put in originally from > the manufacturer or replaced by the technician with a glue that does not > release from the pores of wood the nightmare begins. If one is looking > for the convenience of a glue in a squirt bottle like Titebond or > Elmer's and does not want to deal with hot hide glue then use cold hide > glue, it is readily available and strong as can be, and more importantly > it is EASILY REVERSIBLE, thus sparing the next technician much grief. An > ounce of prevention prevents a pound of cure. Yea, hot hide glue. What else? >With EVERY keyboard and > button manufacturer except myself using a PVA based glue on their > bushings in the buttons and mortises, I feel for the next generations of > technicians having to deal with this preventable problem. Except those making buttons for their own use. Common sense is, arguably, an oxymoron. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: buttons.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 58863 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080104/84e47a9b/attachment-0001.jpg
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