Hi again,  Thanks to the many comments  I have received from this group
and via E-mail, I now have sufficient evidence about the zephir skins
from the Kansas supplier to render them useless.  They cannot be glued
properly, and that is that.  I have shipped them back today and have been
given a credit (hopefully).

This is once again a real eye opener to me as I have lost a great deal of
money and time because of the supplier's lies about his product's glue-
ability.  I would have thought that a supplier of this nature would not
even ship such rubbish and take it off his shelves altogether.  Well, I
guess it was considered good enough to ship to South Africa.

About the spelling of  'Zephir' as mentioned by Robbie in MMD of
yesterday, the spelling I used in my original question came directly
from the catalogue of the Kansas supplier and has no relevance to any
South African English dialect whatsoever.  Incidentally, I am German and
'Zephir' would be the correct spelling in German, too.

Anyway, thank you all for your help and beware of junk materials, even
in the USA.

Bernt W. Damm
Cape Town, South Africa
bdamm@maxwell.ctech.ac.za

 [ That's a big laugh on me!  Like the children's game of "Gossip",
 [ the German spelling in the catalog was repeated, 'round and 'round.
 [ I guess now we can settle upon "zephyr".  -- Robbie