[pianotech] Best Bushing Job Ever!

[Ryan Sowers]

I like to iron the bushing cloth before rebushing also. I just use a clothes
iron set on the wool setting. I feel that it makes the bushing cloth a
little more dense and uniform and prevents the glue from soaking in as much.


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Paul T Williams <
pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu> wrote:

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> Good job, John,
>
> I've had great results with the high quality bushing cloth as well.  That
> change probably was 80% of the better fit.  Ironing helps a bit although
> I've not done it and still get a good fit.  I bush LOTS of keys here at UNL!
>
> Paul
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>  *"John Dorr" <a440 at bresnan.net>*
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> Hi,
>
> Best bushing job by ME, that is!  No doubt there have been better jobs by
> others, but I was so elated at how well my last job went, I thought I had
> to
> share this.
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> Usually when I return with the keys I allow some time to ease those that
> may
> be a little tight yet.  On average, I suppose that's ten keys or so.  This
> last job ALL of the bushings were a PERFECT fit.  The only thing I had to
> do
> was ream a couple of the insides of the balance holes - with a reamer I got
>
> from Jurgen (fine tool).
>
> I think what may have made the difference this time was that I ironed all
> the
> bushings lightly at the end of the job.  OR, it may have been that it was
> my
> first use of what Schaff calls their "extra quality key bushing cloth".
>  What
> do you think?  Either or both?
>
> For ironing I used the Schaff 5-in-1 Electric Iron Kit, #99, shown on page
> 66
> of their catalog.
>
> I controlled the heat with a light dimmer that I bought from a local
> lighting
> store.  It works great and was 1/4 the cost of the #906 ESICO Wattage
> Controller shown above the Iron Kit in the Schaff Catalog.  You plug the
> dimmer cord into the wall, and then plug the iron into the dimmer, so it's
> like getting an extension cord as well as a wattage controller.  That iron
> gets pretty hot on full wattage, and the bushing cloth would surely burn on
>
> HI.
>
> Hope somebody gets some help from this.  From now on I'll do all bushing
> jobs
> this way.  The "extra quality" bushing cloth is not much more $$ at all,
> and
> the ironing takes only a couple of minutes.
>
> John Dorr
> Helena, MT
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-- 
Ryan Sowers, RPT
Puget Sound Chapter
Olympia, WA
www.pianova.net
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