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(a) Water adhesive is very perishable, and sours or spoils within
a few days, especially in warm weather. This meant that quantitie
far in excess of what was actually used was being constantly produo-
ed. We had a special laboratory employing two people devoting
their entire time to the production of adhesives, whereas if oil
could have been used àn hour or two per week could have produced
ample
quantities. Cannot divide labor between oil adhesive and
water adhesive.
(e) Expense of adhesives was never a consideration, as the most
expensive was negligable compared to the value of the luminous
material.
Adhesives then and now are furnished to all of
our luminous material customers without charge.
Note: Ingredients under a & b would apply material valued
at from $200.00 to $3000.00
(f) The primary question then and still is - an adhesive that will
apply smoothly and adhere, without spreading or without injuring
the dial, and one that adversely affects the luminosity of the
material as little as possible, and did not discolor with age.
(g) We painted two kinds of dials - metal and paper.
(h) Water adhesive could not be applied directly to metal dials,
as it would not adhere; and if a basé coat was used first there
was still the danger of a rust condition developing later on
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therefore, oil adhesive was necessarily used on metal, ,porcelain
and similar dials.
(£) oil adhesive could not be successfully used on paper as the oil
in it had a tendency to spread, or ron and thereby disfiguring the
dial. Hence water adhesive was used on paper, and since the most
of our application at that time was on paper dials we necessarily
used more water adhesive than oil. (the oil in the adhesive would
spread the same as it does from putty)
(x) The problem of proper adhesive was a most important question at
that time, and still is. Sochocky was in charge of adhesive
development, and was responsible for whatever was produced and used.
(kc) Similar adhesives were used in a similar manner by all of our
competitors at that time, as well as now, and oftimes sales argu-
ment was based on the superiority of one adhesive over another.
Water adhesive is a Grum Arabie mixture very similar to common
mucilage. Similar to gun water as sold in art stores.
10.
The operators used small camel's hair brushes, but were not instructed to point
said brushes with their lips. The rule was the reverse, not on account of the
thought of danger, but for sanitary reasons. The rule was never strictly enforced
and many of the operators pointed the brushes with their lips. Some never followed
this practice. This could not have been a universal practice as a result of
specific instruction, as complainants coyntomin paragraph 8, that they were instruct-
ed to use oil adhesive as well as water, and claim in Pararraph 9. that if oil
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