> I don't wish, thanks. I've been quite happy with hot hide glue for many > years, and if I should eat an infected batch and come down with mad shop > rat disease, I'll just go into politics. Last week, I tried to strip a > badly installed set of bushings out of a previously "rebuilt" Steinway L. > The glue looked to me like the thick PVA. It was milky white and hard. The > bushings steamed out, but took varying amounts of chewed up wood with > them, which hide glue typically does not. The original mortises ended up > so erratic in width, taper, and texture that I've made and installed a set > of buttons and front mortises to get back to an acceptable bushing job. > > Slay your own dragons any way you like. > Ron N RonN, Well said.............."you the man!" Hot glue or nothing. Like I said before, you may be the guy that has to rebush those PVA glued bushings. Double the work.......half the pay! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 2:31 PM Subject: Re: glue for bushings > > >> I ran some tests with this stuff, Ron, and found >> it no more or less reversible than the hide glue ( >> soaking with pipe cleaners dunked in water, and >> stuffed into mortises ) but it dries harder ( less >> gummy ) than regular PVA, or Aileen's tacky Glue ( >> thick PVC-E ) which made me figger it would swell >> less, with humidity changes. > > What "stuff" is that, what is "regular" PVA, and swell less than what with > humidity changes? > > >> It also "fills gaps", a bit, so would help make up >> for splintered mortise innards, and is so thick that >> I'd doubt it would permeate bushing cloth, much, yet >> seems to hold quite well, when dry. > > Are you talking about the thick wood molding PVA? > > >> And it stinks less, and probably carries zero >> chance of prion disease transfer which ( because I'm >> not a "Real Man", I guess ) also appeals to me. > > You're on your own here. I don't want any part of any of these neuroses. > > >> Run your own tests, and refute these claims, if >> you wish, please. >> Thump > > I don't wish, thanks. I've been quite happy with hot hide glue for many > years, and if I should eat an infected batch and come down with mad shop > rat disease, I'll just go into politics. Last week, I tried to strip a > badly installed set of bushings out of a previously "rebuilt" Steinway L. > The glue looked to me like the thick PVA. It was milky white and hard. The > bushings steamed out, but took varying amounts of chewed up wood with > them, which hide glue typically does not. The original mortises ended up > so erratic in width, taper, and texture that I've made and installed a set > of buttons and front mortises to get back to an acceptable bushing job. > > Slay your own dragons any way you like. > Ron N >
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