compression of punchings

[phillip c sloffer]

Howdy

When I level keys I try to use as few punchings under the key as possible.
On the other hand if I am touching up the kew level and I only need a very
thin punching on top of the stack, I dont remove the stack just because it
has lots of thinner ones instead of just a few thick ones.  Seems to me the
change in key level over time has more to do with changes in the felt
punching than the paper under the felt.

Ya do what ya gotta do.  I have leveled keys with all the same size because
that is all I had with me at the time.  When I needed thinner than I had I
looked for a key that I could rob punchings from and replaced those I
took with others.  On at least one occasion I leveled the keys with the
punchings that were under the keys and did not use any punchings of my own.

On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 mark.stivers@24stex.com wrote:

>
> At our chapter meeting tonight we debated whether it's better to use a lot of
> thin punchings or fewer thick ones. Has anyone out there done scientific tests
> of this question? How do you handle the problem of punchings compressing?
>
> I mean paper punchings used in key leveling.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark Stivers
>
>
>
> mark.stivers@24stex.com
> (916) 447-5494
>

Later,
-Phil


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