Tipps and Tricks
a collection of repair and maintenance tricks.
Growing tired of having to repeat some standard questions in numerous emails, I will collect some basics here available for everybody.
Regards
Tom Westerich
Shellac - making of - and how to get it off...
How to get new Shellac glue? - you could buy some at an artist supply shop -
supplied in amber color flakes, they dissolve over night - in Alcohol.
And excess Shellac - wil be perfectly removed by using Alcolhol as a solvent.
This way, I also take off excess Shellac from pen barrels.
Just make sure, you don´t bathe a celluloid pen in Alcohol,
being wiped off does not attack the plastic,
but a bath in Alcohol will deform the surface.
and - BTW - Alcohol is as well a perfect cleaner for excess bicomponent glue, as long as its still liquid.
Once hardened, it would be Acetone to dissolve the bicomponent - but well, this of course absolutely NOT with
celluloid or other plastics.