[NHCOLL-L:459] RE: bird egg display

[Damien Coup]

Would a water soluble glue such as secotine or tilyards glue work?
I use these for parasitoid mounting. I'm a bit unsure how much they might absorb
into the egg. But they do hold tightly and remove in water.
Damien

Charles Sturm wrote:

> Realizing that I can speak with little authority on this matter I will
> venture to make a recommendation of an adhesive to use.  The adhesive is
> Butvar-76 or one of the other Butvar adhesives.  They have fairly good
> stability.  B-76 dissolves in acetone and can be removed by softening it
> with acetone.  I have used it over the past 10 years to repair broken
> fossil mollusks and vertebrate bones.  You can make a solution as thin or
> as viscous as is necessary to accomplish the job.
>   The only caveat is that the acetone may leach out acetone soluble
> materials from the egg shell.
>  I believe there is a Butvar-98 and I seem to recall that it is soluble in
> water.  I have had no experience with this adhesive.
>
> Charlie
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> Charlie Sturm, Jr
> Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
>                      Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
> Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
>
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