Sticking w/ Your Favorite Glue was RE: Where's the action cloth

[John Ross]

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MessageI was told the reason the white glue was used, was to allow the rebushed flange, to be undone, and used again. It wasn't meant to be permanent.
That is what I was told, when I did the technical part of the exam.

John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
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  From: Alan 
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  Subject: Sticking w/ Your Favorite Glue was RE: Where's the action cloth


  Joe Garrett said: "The only glue, 'allowed', for the technical exam, is white glue."

  This is interesting for three reasons:

  1. At the Associates Seminar (prepping people for the tests) all the glues in evidence where yellow, i.e., Titebond or Elmers Carpenter.

  2. Assuming that "white glue" here translates to "Elmers" school-type glue, I never use it in the piano ...

  3. The reason I never use it is from my early training in the business, specifically Reblitz, 2nd Edition, page 81 "...because it is too hard to remove by scraping and sanding only turns it gummy and sticky, ruining the sandpaper ... never use white glue for anything that might have to be broken apart and reglued again in the future." 

  On the other hand, yellow glue isn't much better in that category. Yet people are routinely using it, especially in the field, for key felts, bridle straps, key slip shims, hammer rail props, etc. To which I say: "Hmmmmmmmm......"

  So I've become a fan of PVC-E. Not for wood repairs (yellow) but for any felt and cloth gluing. On the third hand(?): Is THIS stuff any easier to remove in future, or are we just kidding ourselves?

  Anybody no FOR SURE what current Technical Exam rules say???

  Alan R. Barnard
  Sticking Around in Salem, MO


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