[NHCOLL-L:459] RE: bird egg display
Damien Coup
damien at es.co.nz
Wed Feb 16 23:26:35 EST 2000
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
> ******************************************************************************
> Charlie Sturm, Jr
> Research Associate - Section of Invertebrate Zoology
> Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
> Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
>
> csturmjr at pitt.edu
>
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