Yes definitely use gloves. You can develop allergies to epoxy from overexposure if you are not careful. It is a bit of a hassle, that's why I prefer the injector method. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Zeno Wood Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 1:57 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] capstan hole plugging Do you use gloves? I like the wood epoxy, although when I don't use gloves it's hard to wash off my hands, and when I do use gloves (latex) it gets pretty sticky after a little while. Petty stuff, I guess. -Zeno Wood Brooklyn College On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:50 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote: That works too the biggest problem being getting it into the holes. When I've used it I use the following method. After you mix the putting in your hand roll it out in small bits into small little diameter coils that will fit down into the open capstan holes. Insert and pack with a thin dowel. Do this several times per hole until it is filled. Use a razor blade as a scraper to level the putty by starting in the center and pulling out in each direction toward the edge. Lightly sand flush when cured. The nice thing about the putty is that when you are done you don't have to go back and top off or level. But it does take longer than the injector method. Do it in a couple of batches as the stuff tends to harden up while you are working. It is good when the capstan holes are drilled through. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Richard Brekne Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 12:47 PM To: caut at ptg.org Subject: Re: [CAUT] capstan hole plugging I find that the putty epoxy David Stanwood uses for filling keylead holes works poifectly for this job myself. Cheers RicB -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090420/12e8932d/attachment.html>
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