My 2 cents: Remove grand action and put aluminum foil on keybed. Safer than newspaper. Put newspaper on top of the foil. Wear a gas mask ( carbon filter from auto paint store--about $20. Also vinyl disposable gloves ( A buck for 10 at the grocery store ) These are slower to bond together if you get some on your fingers, than latex gloves. ) Thump --- Alan Barnard <tune4u@earthlink.net> wrote: > You just want CA that is very-thin. Hobby stores may > have it or look on the web and find "super thin" or > some such. Some use hypos to put it in but I like a > closed system with less chance for leaking or > squirtage (fun new word, I made it up). Schaff's > hypo oiler, No. 189, page 45, works well. The larger > one, No. 184, works too but is a little harder to > control the flow. > > Safety hints from bad experience: > > Where safety goggles. A tiny drop in the eye is a > trip to the emergency room and bad news. > > Have acetone or acetone-based nail polish and a rag > within easy reach of your work. > > Use a small desk-type electric fan to blow the fumes > anywhere except in your face. Open windows. Do this > work when the customer is not home, if possible, or > explain that the fumes are nasty but they are only > in the liquid carrier of the CA and it will have no > odor at all when it is cured. > > If titlting an upright, spread a dropcloth under and > beyond the area in which you are working, then > spread newspapers on the drop cloth. This stuff can > drip and it can run along surfaces and fall off some > distance from the pin you are applying it to. > Ruining someone's carpet or floor will ruin your > day! If not tilting, just spot treating a few pins, > be patient: Let each drop wick in before applying > more and have a rag right at the spot to catch > runoff. > > Certain types of cloth I've used--especially a red > shop towel I bought at Walmart--start smoking when > you get CA on it. I've never had one burst into > flames, but there was a definite exothermic chemical > reaction going on there. > > If doing a grand, the stuff WILL drip onto the > action. You must cover it or, more safe, remove it. > If you remove it, put some newspaper on the key bed, > anyway. > > Alan Barnard > Salem, Missouri > > (Msg may be a duplicate, first didn't seem to go > through. Sorry if it is ...) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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