Tightening key bushings

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Mike

Same basic principle... just a little less destructive. I've also seen 
guys inserting needles and breaking them off  so as too leave them there 
implanted as it were. Dont see the need myself but just so. If you have 
gotten beyond needing what little extra tightness this can get you, then 
you need to ease off on your easing technique so as to avoid the problem 
in the first place. Changing an isolated bushing is a quickie anyways.

Cheers
RicB



Michael Gamble wrote:

>Hello List and RicB
>I've often come across keys which have been "knifed" open along side the
>bushings and the new slot thus made shimmed.... Also there is a special tool
>extant with a sort of inverted "W" on one side of the metal block. On the
>other side it is flat. The object is to place the key, ivory down, on a
>solid bench, insert the middle of this "W" in the bushed slot and then bash
>the other side of the block. Sounds a bit crude - don't even know whether it
>works or not - but it's available........
>Michael G (UK)
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