<html> <body> Lee, Use the hide glue, and get Bill's instructions as others mentioned. For felts and such, you just have to wade through one of the supply catalogs and buy a selection of felts to use in various places.  Bellyman's felt works for hammer rail rest felts. Don Mannino RPT At 11:22 AM 1/26/2005, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi all. I'm doing my first replacement of damper felts on this old upright and I need some glue & technique advice.  I've read a lot of archive lit., manuals, etc.  It sounds like hide glue and a glue pot are a very good way to do it in consideration of ever re-doing it in the future. White (Elmers) is advised against because it's messy to remove and because it soaks into felt too readily.  Likewise, Titebond & yellow glues.  Does anyone use hot melt glue?  I don't know how you'd ever get that off other than cutting and sanding, though.  I guess hide glue can be ammonia-mix soaked, then steamed or heated off.  Other gluing tasks : back rail cloth & key bushings, so maybe that makes a difference as far as what I buy. Also, the hammer check rail needs to be lifted by new or added felts so that the hammer travel is corrected.  I'd like to replace those very thick, stout felts with new ones cut to the correct thickness, but I haven't been able to identify what to order.  The existent felt pieces appear to be very dense (or maybe it's simply compacted ?).  They're  1/2" x 1/2" x 1 1/4" and the stop bumper piece is 1/2" x 1" x 1 1/4".   I need to increase the thickness from 1/2" to 5/8" to get the hammer travel right. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks. Lee Peterson   </blockquote></x-html> </blockquote></body> </html>