Latex Contact Cement or...

[Jon Page]

For plastic keytops use PVC-E glue.  It does not need clamping. Press the
keytop
on and the hydroscopic force will hold it there until dry.
Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 12:54 PM 12/4/98 EST, you wrote:
>I used latex based (non-inflammable) contact cement once for installing new
>keytops.  I thought it worked great.  No clamping and the product did not pit
>the tops of the keys if you accidentally dripped.  Since then I have been
able
>to find it in quarts and pints but not in the little bottles (3-4 oz I think)
>with the brush cap.  I like these because one bottle is good for a set of
tops
>and you can throw what little is left away, before it gets thick and gloppy.
>
>Does anyone know where to buy these bottles.
>
>OR
>
>Howabout PVC glue.  Any body used it? Does it have to be clamped?  
>
>I hate to use CY glue because of the p[oor tech who comes after me.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dick Day
>Marshall MI
>
>

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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