---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment John Thanks for the feedback. I use to use the go-bar deck and enjoyed this feature of access for cleanup. Do you slow the hot hide with any retarder? How do you clean it up? Paper toweling putty knife or all of the above? As I said I can reach between the cauls for cleanup and have for a long time but with tight rib spacing it's more difficult. I'll try your idea of ribbing every other one in those cases. I'm glad to know your opinion about the moisture,absorption time and that the effect on the panel swelling is not an just pressed a B board yesterday in about an hour & 1/2 then came back later to skim off the glue. I found that way time consumning. Probably 45 min. Regards--Dale Erwin Dale, I use a go bar deck, it is fast, simple and versatile. I clean up the glue one rib at a time. My hands can reach between the ribs with the bars on. I use hot hide glue,I have never had a problem with using water to clean it off. The added moisture takes several hours to begin to effect the panel and even so it does not raise the moisture content very much. By then the glue would be sufficiently set any way. With hot hide glue you can safely remove the clamps in under one hour. It takes two of us about 40 minutes to completly glue up on a good size soundboard. The photos on my web sit show ribbing a S&S B. [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] Seems like you have a lot of extra work to solve this problem. Would it be best in the long run to re-engineer your press so you can get you hand in there to clean off the glue? Maybe you could glue every other rib so there will be more room. This means gluing the ribs in two passes but I see no problem with this except added time. Recently I needed to do this while ribbing a Mason and Hamlin BB. The ribs in the treble were close together so I took two passes to rib the treble section. John Hartman RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/64/af/36/5f/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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