Nah, Use the tuning pin and roll the sandpaper or emery cloth arround the pin and cut paper 1/4 short of full circle. I have over a 100 sleeves any takers<G> ANOTHER GOOD IDEA THAT DOES NOT WORK. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: Kent Swafford <kswafford@earthlink.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 11:47 AM Subject: Re: Coils and tuning pin bushings > on 6/1/00 1:58 PM, John Ross at piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: > > > I can't remember the original question, but I only used those bushings once, > > when I was starting out. > > I find them useless. > > I wouldn't go so far as to say brass tuning pin bushings are useless. Take > one, open it up, and flatten it out. You now have a very nice template with > which you can cut your sandpaper tuning pin shim to its correct size. :) > > Kent Swafford > >
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