Another successful short term remidy (in some instances years) is rubbing the felt with a carpenter pencil lead. It fits in the slot real nice once you have lifted the key bushing above the ballance rail pin. Larry On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:08:50 EST BobDavis88@AOL.COM writes: > Roger Jolly writes: > > > A quick and easy tempory fix [for squeaking balance rail key > bushings] is > to use an awl and spring the > > balance rail pin forward and out of the cup. > > Hi, Roger, > Yes, good idea, thanks. I have also used Teflon powder to get by > until the > next tuning. In any case I mark the key w.chalk and enter the > problem into my > customer notes so I can follow its progress. > Bob Davis
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