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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: =
black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=tune4u@earthlink.net =
href="mailto:tune4u@earthlink.net">Alan</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=dave@davispiano.com
href="mailto:dave@davispiano.com">dave@davispiano.com</A> ; <A
title=pianotech@ptg.org =
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">'Pianotech'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 08, 2003 =
8:47 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: PVC-E & =
Sharps</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>This was a post I put up about my experience with PVC-E and
sharps--with<BR>a little bit of CA on the ends. They seem to have held =
real
well, even<BR>the two I dropped!<BR><BR><A
=
href="https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/2003-May/134749.html">http=
://www.ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/2003-May/134749.html</A><BR><BR>Alan
R. Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: <A
=
href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org">pianotech-bounces@ptg.org</A>
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On<BR>Behalf Of Dave Davis<BR>Sent: =
Sunday,
June 08, 2003 9:06 PM<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>Subject: =
PVC-E &
Sharps<BR><BR>Hi All,<BR><BR>I've been researching the Archives on =
PVC-E glue
and<BR>found lots of entries with mostly positive results as<BR>an =
adhesive
for keytops (naturals).<BR><BR>Does PVC-E work equally as well on =
plastic
sharps? I<BR>found only one reference in the
archives.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Dave Davis<BR>Renton,
WA<BR><BR> Was the old "pyralin glue" that =
Schaff or
American used to sell for keytops the same as PVC-E? It worked =
pretty
well, as I remember, but didn't have a long shelf life -- hardened =
into one
rubbery blob. Smelled like Duco Cement. Anyway, it's not =
in the
catalog now, and PVC-E seems to be what they recommend for plastic (or =
ivory?)
keytops.</DIV>
<DIV> And what is "pyralin" anyway -- just a =
type of
plastic? I know from (bad) experience, that when gluing keytops =
with the
wafers and brass plates, then heating them [I was taught to put a =
little blob
of Sterno on the plate, then light it. It burns for a minute or =
so, then
goes out, and the ivory and wafer bonds quite well to the =
key], if
you accidentally spill Sterno juice on the key front or heat the key =
front too
hot with a heat gun, it will flame up and burn faster than a =
marshmallow over
a campfire! And I'm wondering if "pyralin" has anything to =
do with
"pyro" or if heat or fire is used in its manufacture, or what? =
</DIV>
<DIV> I always thought (old) plastic keytops, and =
especially
key fronts, were celluloid, and that's why they burn so easily, like =
old
movie film. </DIV>
<DIV> --David Nereson,
RPT <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>