CA glue on loose hammers

[John Delmore]

Hmmm...this "vinegar trick" sounds like it will work in my odd application:
"eaten" key bushings.  The piano I'm working on (learning experience) has NO
complete bushings (front rail--some on center rail are intact), only spots
left here and there.  I'm thinking targeted hypo-application of vinegar
instead of steaming the dickens out of the mortise to get the specks.
Thoughts?
John   

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Isaac Sadigursky
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 11:09 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: RE: CA glue on loose hammers

Some clarification about the Vinegar Trick...I had learned it from late Bob
Russell,RPT.It's applicable to remove loose hammers for regluing,works in
about 20 seconds..Or,to reglue hammers,as Geoff said,just apply it and leave
it alone.The glue will get re-juvenaited and it works..Loose furniture
pieces,especially,chairs,were fixed quickly by application of accidy
substances,and vinegar is one of them.It should be tried on an old klunker
to make you a believer in this trick.It works on modern glues in Asian
pianos,as well.Doing it that way saves time in re-alighning and "nursing"
the hammers.Hope,it helps..Isaac