Hide glue tech tip

[David ilvedson]

> Date:          Fri, 03 Jan 1997 12:59:59 -0500 (EST)
> From:          Frederick G Scoles <scoles@oswego.edu>
> Subject:       Re: Hide glue tech tip
> To:            pianotech@byu.edu
> Reply-to:      pianotech@byu.edu

Dear list,

I also don't have any problem with the odor.  I got mine years
ago through Schaff, I believe.  It has a slight amber color.  The
odor comments brought me back to 1973 when I was at Western Iowa
Tech in Sioux City, Iowa learning my trade from the great Bob Erlandson.
I remember in the summer especially, the odor in the air from the
rendering plants was so bad it almost smelled good!

ilvey, RPT
Pacifica, CA
> On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Danny Moore wrote:
>
> > Ron & List,
> > Just a note to agree with your hot (glue) tip.  We used this method in
> > school at HCC under Jim Geiger.  I've since tried other methods, and
> > yours seems to be the most efficient.  Now, if someone will just come up
> > with a way to eliminate the odor. . .
> >
> > Thanks,
> > 	D.M.
> As for the odor, Pianotek Supply Co., Mohawk, and Milligan &
> Higgins, all suppliers of the highest quality hide glue suggest piano
> rebuilders use only the highest quality hide glue.  It is almost clear in
> color (slightly amber), and usually has very little odor.  They say that
> the lower quality, darker batches are the ones that have the odor.  My
> nose is dead (as are other parts of me I'm sure), but the family says
> that the clearer, high quality glue is a drastic improvement.  If high
> quality glue is accidentally over heated, it will of course smell as the
> proteins are breaking down; then it's not glue any more.  It doesn't hurt
> to clean the glue pot every so often, also. I think some of these things
> were discussed about a yr. ago; Pianotech Archive.
>
> I used to use the lower quality hide glues and sometimes a bone glue
> (they don't cost quite as much), but everybody complained about the odor.
>
> Fred Scoles, RPT
>
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