Duaine, 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. 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! John Ashcraft, RPT <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Duaine Hechler <<a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net">dahechler@att.net</a>> wrote: <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 ....... At a customers' home, I'm supposed to drag, setup and use a hide glue pot to hang the hammers ..... I don't think so.... just sayin' FWIW, I've started to use fish glue. Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 <a href="tel:%28314%29%20838-5587" value="+13148385587" target="_blank">(314) 838-5587</a> <a href="mailto:dahechler@att.net" target="_blank">dahechler@att.net</a> <a href="http://www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com" target="_blank">www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com</a> -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years </blockquote></div>