[pianotech] Is CA accelerator necessary?

[Dean May]

Good responses so far on why not to use the accelerator. There are a couple
of instances where it is judicious to use acclerator- but only after you've
let the CA soak as long as you can. If you are treating a vertical piano
laying on its back or a grand that is flipped upside down, then mist
accelerator over the pin field or holes to set up any left over puddles of
CA that didn't soak in. Otherwise, those puddles will turn into drips when
you right the piano, and one universal law when using CA is that drips
always go where you don't want them. 
 

Dean

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From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Staples
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 9:19 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Is CA accelerator necessary?


I understand that the accelerator makes the CA glue that it contacts set
immediately, but on the one (and only) pin block CA treatment I've done
(with one fan in the window and another next to the pin block), I did not
find the CA glue fumes bothersome, but the accelerator fumes were almost
unbearable.  Why should I use CA accelerator on a pin block or in any other
piano related CA application?
 
Thanks,
 
Michael Staples
PTG Associate Member
Lexington, KY
 
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