cold hide glue shelf life

[Cy Shuster]

I heard in class last week that its shelf life could be less than a year.
There may be a date on the bottle...

--Cy Shuster--
Bluefield, WV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Nereson" <davner@kaosol.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 8:15 AM
Subject: cold hide glue shelf life


>     Tried to glue hammer shanks with cold hide glue (Franklin) last night
> and the stuff just would not set up.  Three hours later and I could still
> pull the shank out of the butt as tho' it had no glue at all!  It's a
bottle
> I've had for a while, but probably not more than a year or so.  Worked
fine
> a couple weeks ago.  It gets warm and cool in the shop, but not really hot
> or cold.  Does the stuff have a short shelf life?  The cap's been on the
> whole time.  Other bottles I've had never did this.  -- David Nereson, RPT