Glue Use/Mis-Use
By Damon Atchison
Dear All,
I fear I have made a terrible mistake with glue. When a professional was showing me the ropes of player piano rebuilding a few years ago, he rebuilt my resivor bellows using this rubbery (when dry) type glue called "plastic glue". You can buy it from the player piano co.. I was concerned now though because in the book about rebuilding the player piano by Arthur Reblitz (which is a great book) he says only to use hot glue or hyde glue on the bellows you mix up in a glue pot, or in a double boiler on your stove. Will my bellows hold? They're very airtight?
Anyway, I want to use the correct hot glue on my supply bellows because they're going to get some hard useage, so I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to use hot glue and shellac. I need to use shellac to seal my new boards I had to make for my supply bellows as the originals have broken.
My old Beckwith needs the piano almost totally rebuilt and I haven't ever rebuilt a piano before. I can take it apart, as any idiot could, but I am leary of trying to fix it. I am going to get the book "Piano Tuning, Servicing, and Rebuilding" by Arthur Reblitz, so will this tell me what I need to do, and will I be able to do it with that book? (i.e. re-string patch soundboard, rebuild bass clef, replace hammers, and bridal straps, ect.) I really don't want to screw anything up!
Damon Atchison
Damon66@aol.com
P.S. I have use of a Pierce Piano Atlas for a while if anyone needs me to look something up. |
(Message sent Sun 1 Dec 1996, 22:53:44 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.) |
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