What's the best method for mass action-center bushing ?????

[Avery Todd]

Sounds like it "might" be the Rappaport's? Husband & wife team, anyway. :-)

Avery


On 8/22/07, Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> For rebushing, I took a class from......, from........, from........., oh
> gosh, what's his name - husband and wife team - they used (or still are) to
> be head techs for Tanglewood - just can't think of his name. Anyway, Renner
> pre-glued action cloth (available from Renner USA) and the European long
> pinning rods (available from Jurgen @ Pianoforte Supply).
>
> Sounds like somebody needs to go to some conferences for continuing
> education...... (and it ain't Ed!).
>
> Terry Farrell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> What's the best method for bushing all the centers
> quickly, and uniformly, please?
>
>
> Don Mannino has a great class on this subject. What I do is to determine
> the size of pin that will be slightly larger than any of the pins in the row
> of flanges, determine the proper straight sided reamer for that pin size,
> and then go through the row, reaming the bushings for the oversize pin.
> Don't spend time custom fitting various pin sizes to each bushing, ie,  if
> you have 19, 191/2, 20 sized pins in your hammer flanges, find what reaming
> is needed to fit a size 21 1/2 pin in there and then do all of them to that
> size.  Odds are that the action will never be pinned again, and if it does,
> there are still several sizes yet to go, if needed.
> this procedure is not only as consistant as can be hoped for, it is
> economically feasible.
>
> Ed Foote RPT
>
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