[LargeFormat] Bellows Repair

[Bob Younger]

.......and I suspect that
http://www.elmers.com/PRODUCT_INDEX/product_page.asp?pCode=E371
is the glue that's referred to.....

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brock Nanson" <brock@nanson.org>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Bellows Repair


> I'd be curious to hear more details on this mixture... I've used "Elmer's"
> glue for many things, but not this.  And FYI, as near as I can tell, it is
> just a woodworking glue as mentioned earlier.
>
> Source of the article, general instructions/proportions?  I have some
> pinholes to fix on my Super Graphic...
>
> Brock
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Younger" <younger@wwc.com>
> To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] Bellows Repair
>
>
> | Clive,
> |
> | Elmer's now makes several different glues and adhesives, but I suspect
the
> | Elmer's white glue is the one suggested. Long used by schoolchildren in
> the
> | US for all sorts of crafts, etc., presumably non-toxic as I recall
seeing
> my
> | compatriots eating it.
> | For the price of shipping, I'm quite certain someone over here could
send
> | you some.
> |
> | In repairing my bellows I found an opaque, black silicone compound at a
> | maritime/boating supply and used it with a well sanded and rounded
tongue
> | depresser. It's worked well for two years now. Saved a costly bellows
> | replacement on my Deardorff.
> |
> | Bob Younger
> |
> |
> | ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "Clive Warren" <Clive.Warren@megacycle.co.uk>
> | To: <largeformat@f32.net>
> | Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:35 AM
> | Subject: [LargeFormat] Bellows Repair
> |
> |
> | > Have just read an interesting article on bellows repair that suggests
> the
> | > use of a concoction based on a glue called "Elmer's Glue" together
with
> | > some detergent and lampblack.  I have never seen Elmer's glue in the
> UK -
> | > is there an equivalent glue that anyone knows about, or perhaps if you
> | have
> | > some of this wonder glue sitting around you could post the ingredients
> so
> | I
> | > can find an equivalent here in England.
> | >
> | > I havre a feeling that this is the same white glue that I have used in
> the
> | > past for papier mache......
> | >
> | > Cheers,
> | >             Clive
> | >
> | >
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