Dear List, I finally did it. I used the two-glue trick to glue my fingers together. [you can laugh now, I don't mind.] You see [she said, trying to seem less like a moron] I was gluing rubber buttons in on a Steinway A [note: she was working on a good piano!] and I had a little bit of the white glue left on my finger while I was putting the CA glue onto the rubber button. The button, without any excess squeeze out, ended up firmly attached to the case, and my left forefinger was, apparently, indissolubly wedded to the side of my thumb. (at least, a divorce would have occasioned a lot of pain.) I then discovered that the little tube of jelled acetone (kept in my kit for that purpose) had gradually dried up, so nothing was left of it. So, I went to the car, and in my cleaning kit I have a plastic bottle of nail polish remover, with the bottle kept in a ziploc bag. This, after several minutes of effort, restored independent motion to my finger and thumb, but I did notice that the bottle, left 3/4 full, now had only 1/4 left. So, the drift of my cautionary tale: don't assume you have acetone with you unless you check it now and then, or unless your containers are tighter than mine. Susan P.S. I now understand how the rubber buttons feel (if they could feel) being trapped in those holes. My fingers were _definitely_ more stuck together than they get when I'm gluing keytops with plain CA.
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