<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> </head> <body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <div>No it isn't!  Nice input though.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Paul</div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"> <div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> <span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>John Ashcraft <<a href="mailto:jaashcraft@gmail.com">jaashcraft@gmail.com</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span><<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:15:36 -0700<br> <span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span><<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a>><br> <span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [pianotech] Evil Glue<br> </div> <div><br> </div> Duaine,<br> <br> This reply is off-list. I use a potpourri pot (looks like a tiny crockpot) with just enough water to float a clean tuna can with my hot hide glue in it. You can set it up in a customer's home easily and have glue ready in a few minutes. I save my used glue in the can, let it dry, and reconstitute by adding a bit of water when I need to use it. (Throw it away if it gets moldy instead of drying properly.) I changed from Titebond to hot hide glue when I did a set of hammers for a Kimball grand and got a spectacular tone improvement. <br> <br> The little pot looks innocent, so the customer is not offended by or afraid of a messy glue pot. Another nice thing about the potpourri pot--you can put some real potpourri into it after finishing with the gluing and cover the smell!<br> <br> John Ashcraft, RPT <br> <br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Duaine Hechler <span dir="ltr"> <<a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> So, since I don't have a real shop - just my basement - and I need to replace hammers on an upright piano .......<br> <br> At a customers' home, I'm supposed to drag, setup and use a hide glue pot to hang the hammers .....<br> <br> I don't think so.... just sayin'<br> <br> FWIW, I've started to use fish glue.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> Duaine<br> <br> -- <br> Duaine Hechler<br> Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ<br> Tuning, Servicing&  Rebuilding<br> Reed Organ Society Member<br> Florissant, MO 63034<br> <a href="tel:%28314%29%20838-5587" value="+13148385587" target="_blank">(314) 838-5587</a><br> <a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net" target="_blank">dahechler@att.net</a><br> <a href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com" target="_blank">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</a><br> --<br> Home&  Business user of Linux - 11 years<br> <br> </font></span></blockquote> </div> <br> </span> </body> </html>