glue for bushings

[Ron Nossaman]

>     At the risk of being lynched, burnt at the cross or forced to listen 
> to rap music, I feel I must question why someone would use any other 
> glue than hide glue on WEAR items.  WEAR items being bushings 
> especially. Bushings are replaced so often one could make a good 
> living solely replacing them, and when they are put in originally from 
> the manufacturer or replaced by the technician with a glue that does not 
> release from the pores of wood the nightmare begins. If one is looking 
> for the convenience of a glue in a squirt bottle like Titebond or 
> Elmer's and does not want to deal with hot hide glue then use cold hide 
> glue, it is readily available and strong as can be, and more importantly 
> it is EASILY REVERSIBLE, thus sparing the next technician much grief. An 
> ounce of prevention prevents a pound of cure. 

Yea, hot hide glue. What else?


>With EVERY keyboard and 
> button manufacturer except myself using a PVA based glue on their 
> bushings in the buttons and mortises, I feel for the next generations of 
> technicians having to deal with this preventable problem. 

Except those making buttons for their own use.

Common sense is, arguably, an oxymoron.
Ron N
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