Key top Material

[Richard Moody]

The simulated heads and tails, #361019 (p.43) APSCO,,,  or Vagias Keytops, (p85)
Schaff work real good for individual replacements. I would not hesitate to replace
20 headpieces with these.  (I have done up to 15 on old uprights)  By the time you
steel wool, and buff the old ivory, these replacements will be as invisible as the
joint you make.     EXECPT near picture windows with certain UV filters....
	The glue I like better than PVCe is GOOP.  With GOOP you don't need such a smooth
surface, only white, like from White Out. (remember that stuff?)  I like GOOP better
because it does not fail in the pull test like PVCe does.  I still use the warmed
brass plates with their special clamps, and I like GOOP better using these because
with GOOP the head piece will not "walk" as much as PVCe
	If there is a white colored ready mixed epoxy from a squeeze tube that is easier to
squeeze than GOOP, and cleans up with naptha or less,  I would give that a shot. 
The only thing I don't like about GOOP is the smell. BUT it is not as offensive as
CA. and a toss up with epoxy. 
---ric
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> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:06:52 +1300 "M J & L V Ashby" <mjashby@xtra.co.nz>
> writes:
> 
> >Does anyone out there know where I can get some decent keytop 
> >material.
> >Preferably sold in sheets.
> >The stuff they use on the new C series and RX series would be nice.
> >
> >
> 
> Yamaha won't sell the Ivorite material except as replacement for damaged
> tops on currently so equipped pianos.  Or so I was told a few days ago. 
> I asked just last week.  If Don Mannino is lurking out there maybe he
> will answer the RX question.    Fletcher Newman,  (Britain)  sells
> figured celluloid type material.  Looks pretty good.
> 
> Dale Fox
> 
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