Keytops

[Wimblees]

In a message dated 98-05-21 11:21:37 EDT, you write:

>1. What is the appropiate, or personally preferred, adhesive for Vagias tops?
>2. Do they buff up well?
>3. Is there a style that someone would recommend that I not use?
>Thanks.
>Jim Bryant (FL)

Jim:

For adheasive, I would recommend the same stuff you use for other keytops. I
use 3M's spray adheasive. This stuff is rubber cement in a spray can. 

I have never heard of having to buff up plasitc keytops. It would seem to me
that using a buffing machine might actually scratch, if not burn, the plastic.
To get the rubber cement off the pastic keytops, I use naptha. 

I don't know about style, but I want to relate a problem I had with Vagias
tops about 15 years ago. I used the ivory grain top. After about a year, the
customer complained that the tops were splintering. Sure enough, when I got
there, the material was breaking up, kind of like a piece of wood that has
splinters in it.  I has the same thing happen to another cusyomer a couple of
months later. I haven't used Vagias tops ever since. 

I have no idea why this happened. I speculate it had something to do with the
chemical makeup of her body. Because the plastic is made up of different
grades and colors, perhaps the "glue" that holds the different colors together
was reacting to her body chemestry. Another theory is that her hand lotion was
reacting to the plastic.

Anyone out there with some other theories, or similar experiences? 

Willem Blees  RPT
St. Louis