PLASTIC GLUE

Plastic glue is the only glue that is recommended for gluing nylon cloth to wood. The cost for 8 fluid ounces of the glue is $12.00. Comes in a plastic squeeze bottle and a tapered tip for easy glue application.

Using this glue is much easier than using animal hide glue. Besides the fact that there's no preparation needed, you have about a minute to make slight adjustments in the positioning of the cloth. Also, trimming is much easier because the glue doesn't get 'rock hard' like other types of wood glues.

To place an order, Click Here. Specify "Plastic glue". Only sold in 8 oz. bottles.

Rubberized cotton-backed striker pneumatic cloth hasn't been available from any supplier in America since October 2017. And, while there is a supplier in Germany who claimed to have a suitable replacement cloth, it turned out to be synthetic cloth. Early in 2020, we heard about a supplier in England who was selling cotton-backed cloth. So, we sent for a sample, and it was, in fact, cotton-backed cloth. So, we made arrangements with the supplier to import 25 meters of the cloth. Come to find out that the supplier wasn't 100% satisfied with the cloth he had been getting from the manufacturer. He thought that the cotton cloth was a little too thick and stiff. This new cloth, which took about two months to get manufactured, is 0.001" thinner and extremely supple.

Upon receiving the cloth on April 28, 2020, we began running a series of tests. Obviously, the most important test was to determine if the cloth was air-tight. It is most definitely 99.9% air-tight. To see the results of that test, watch our YouTube video -click here. Also, for comparison sake, watch our YouTube videos of the other three cloths that were available years ago -click here, here, or here.

We were also very pleasantly surprised to find that this new cloth created a striker pneumatic that was more responsive than the thinner nylon cloth or the best of the three other striker cloths that were previously available. The new cloth required a full inch less vacuum to collapse the bellows than the nylon cloth. On April 21, 2022, Paul Rumpf wrote a very interesting article for the Mechanical Music Digest in which he compared the characteristics of various types of striker cloth. It's now available at Player-Care: click here.

In closing, we decided to import this cloth primarily for the purists who want to use hot hide glue instead of plastic glue, which creates a weaker bond than hide glue and makes rebuilding more difficult for the next rebuilder. What we didn't expect is that the cloth makes a bellows that is more responsive than the nylon cloth, which is 0.003" thinner.

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