•These little buggers are a real pain in the patoot. Often they will peel off with a knife blade. Sometimes they will peel better with a warm iron. Do not use a hot hot iron as it will stick them even worse. One of the last resort things to do is to burn them off. I use a propane torch and just touc...

•I have acquired a Venetian style cabinet I want to use for piano roll storage; I assume it was part of a dining set as there is a compartmented velvet lined drawer at the bottom. In the recent craze for painted furniture this noble piece endured two coats of Home Depot 'Mixmatch' colors in an attem...

•The easiest way to remove anything that has been glued with PVC-E glue is use a heat gun. The glue gets soft when heated. This also goes for anything sealed with Phenoseal. If you want to get the glue off of the metal, try soaking them in water. I am currently working on a Schultz player that has c...

•When PVC-E is applied to bare wood -- around a metal valve plate or anywhere else -- it can be almost impossible to remove from the wood. However, if the wood was sealed with shellac first, and the glue is only around the perimeter of the plates, it's usually possible to scrape the glue off with yo...

•Hi -- I tried a heat gun to remove glue from pneumatics that were so heavily coated with PVC-E that you could not see the wood underneath. With all due respect to Art Reblitz's solution, all I can say is, "Been there, done that." A heat gun is too dangerous and can easily scorch the wood. It will a...

•I would love a solution to the PVC glued on this or that. I can find no solvent to remove the stuff. Diligent scraping with the fingernail seems to be the only way to free up metal valve covers. I have fifty or so Wurlitzer block valves in my junk pile, thanks to PVC glue all over them. Don Teach ...

•Model airplane builders use a hot iron which might be suitable for the PVC removal. I don't know if their temperatures are suitable but they are fairly low cost and a better size than an iron which is used with an ironing board. See: http://www.towerhobbies.com/listings/cat-cat-r.html Enter "coveri...

•I've had good luck using Super Glue remover, of all things, to remove PVC-e glue. I think there is an alcohol present that softens the glue. I'm not sure what kind of alcohol, but perhaps that would work even better. As the remover works, it turns the glue into a clear, gunky mess that can be scrap...

•I've had two major experiences with this problem. A Welte stack had the pneumatics glued to the deck boards with PVC-E. They were not tightly glued, so there was quite a bit of glue. First I tried to sand it. Big mistake -- big mess. I was able to remove it by applying semi-paste paint remover, whi...

•Greetings, I remember hearing that acetone is used to remove CA glue (crazy glue) so this may work on PVC-E. There are products that soften epoxy, which should be strong enough to remove almost anything, but the active ingredient is something awful that I would not want to be near. Best regards, Sp...

•I have dealt with this problem for years. I find that soaking the glue off with lacquer thinner works rather well. The problem however, is when you have metal valve plates screwed down with PVC as the gasket. If the wood was finished with shellac or lacquer it comes off easier, but if it is raw woo...

•Hi All, I've been running a few tests to find something that really does make it quite easy to soften and remove PVC-E glue, and you'll never guess what works. Try hydrogen peroxide -- I was shocked! In about 30 minutes, the big glob of PVC-E glue turned milk white and I pulled it off in one piece...

•Hi all, I must say I'm a little surprised at this thread. I thought all you people in MMD land were exponents of hot glue but, having said that, I suppose you've got your hackers over there just as I am over here. I don't know if white PVA is the same stuff, but I discovered many years ago that exp...

•Hi All, Can I just clarify that I was not suggesting anyone should drink mentholated spirit; it was just meant to be an amusing anecdote. Obviously some of you took it the wrong way. Sure, tramps used to consume it as a substitute to whisky and gin; it was much cheaper, for one thing. And certainly...

•[ Paul Camps wrote in 050326 MMDigest: >> Can I just clarify that I was not suggesting anyone should drink >> mentholated spirit; it was just meant to be an amusing anecdote. >> Obviously some of you took it the wrong way. Sure, tramps used to >> consume it as a substitute to whisky and gin; it was...

•After reading all the opinions on this subject for the last two weeks, I once again applied a thin bead of PVC-E around the perimeter of a nickel-plated brass valve seat from an old player piano, an aluminum replacement seat from Organ Supply Co., and to the shellacked finish on a piece of scrap wo...

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- White glue disintegrates in acetone. If you have a piece that can be soaked in acetone for a few minutes, the glue turns into a sludge that can be easily brushed away. Gordon Stelter

•-- non-subscriber, please reply to sender and MMD -- I had some success today removing striker pneumatics, glued on with Elmer's Glue, by laying folded and water-soaked paper towels across the inside of the pneumatics, and letting them sit a bit, before applying the hot iron. It seemed to drive som...

•I am trying to lighten an early 65-note Steck upright which needs to be stood on end to get out of its present location. The stack is in the lower half of the piano, above the exhausters and reservoir. The pneumatics operate the piano action using long wires which go up behind the keys to a rail wh...

•[ John Farmer wrote in 060116 MMDigest: > I am trying to lighten an early 65-note Steck upright which needs > to be stood on end to get out of its present location. ... I have > found the fixings for the stack, but I can't drop it far because of > the exhausters and reservoir. I can't slide it stra...