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Re: contact cement

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2016-10-16 06:24

Steven Ocone wrote:

> Another technique (one I don't use), is to take some sheets of
> cork and put several layers of solvent based contact cement on
> (letting each layer dry before the next is applied). To put a
> cork on a key, heat the area of the key and press a piece of
> this prepared cork on.

You could do this with old fashioned shellac (stick or flaked) dissolved in some alcohol, which is the way I remember seeing corks and pads applied in Moennig's shop 50 years ago. He just brushed the dissolved shellac onto the surface or dripped it into the pad cup, then heated the key or pad cup to evaporate the alcohol. I imagine you could prepare sheet cork ahead of time by brushing the dissolved shellac over one surface, then heat the key the same way you describe to melt the hardened shellac.

The pad and cork cement that Micro used to market (maybe still does, though I haven't seen it for awhile) was, I always thought, essentially the same thing.

But in the end, I'm not really sure what's wrong with modern contact cement. I've never noticed enough smell of fumes from the amount you use on a cork to seem dangerous. I've never tried to thin it - if it eventually stiffens in the bottle so much that it won't spread from a brush, I chuck it and get buy a new bottle.

Karl

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