[pianotech] Evil Glue

[John Ashcraft]

Duaine,

This reply is off-list. I use a potpourri pot (looks like a tiny crockpot)
with just enough water to float a clean tuna can with my hot hide glue in
it. You can set it up in a customer's home easily and have glue ready in a
few minutes. I save my used glue in the can, let it dry, and reconstitute
by adding a bit of water when I need to use it. (Throw it away if it gets
moldy instead of drying properly.) I changed from Titebond to hot hide glue
when I did a set of hammers for a Kimball grand and got a spectacular tone
improvement.

The little pot looks innocent, so the customer is not offended by or afraid
of a messy glue pot. Another nice thing about the potpourri pot--you can
put some real potpourri into it after finishing with the gluing and cover
the smell!

John Ashcraft, RPT

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Duaine Hechler <dahechler at att.net> wrote:

> So, since I don't have a real shop - just my basement - and I need to
> replace hammers on an upright piano .......
>
> At a customers' home, I'm supposed to drag, setup and use a hide glue pot
> to hang the hammers .....
>
> I don't think so.... just sayin'
>
> FWIW, I've started to use fish glue.
>
> Duaine
>
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