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Hot Glue to Hold Tubing in Place
By Rick Cooley

Hi John,

What a great idea from John Tuttle about using a hot glue gun for tacking rubber tubes in place on machines. We have done restorations for 40 years (about 300 machines, counting music boxes, orchestrions, players, reproducers, etc.) and it never occurred to us to use a glue gun to keep those pesky tubes where they belong.

We are currently restoring the German "Robot Band" by Blessing, which is three life-size automatons who play the traps, piano and accordion. It was formerly at Bellm's Sarasota Museum. There seem to be hundreds of tubing runs that need to be "stuck in place". Who says "you can't teach an old (61) dog new tricks." Thanks, John.

Rick and Betty Cooley, RCCXX@AOL.COM


(Message sent Tue 17 Dec 1996, 16:32:40 GMT, from time zone GMT-0500.)

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