Tightening key bushings

[Richard Brekne]

Conrad Hoffsommer wrote:

> At 21:11 4/9/2004 +0100, you 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)
>
>
>
> Ya sure, by golly, it works.
>
> ONCE!
>
> Then you either have to replace the button or rebuild the key because 
> you have just splintered the wood beyond redemption.
>
>
> Conrad Hoffsommer
> Decorah, IA
>
Thats about the...er... size of it !

RicB