Great minds................ ;-] This is the same thing I do, either by wetting the BR holes while removing bushings with Wallpaper Paste Remover/Water, or if I'm in a hurry and steaming bushings out, I'll lay the wet cloth on the balance rail holes and steam them as well. I agree that as long as you're there, it takes little to no extra effort. William R. Monroe On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Kent Swafford <kswafford at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 31, 2010, at 9:37 AM, Jon Page wrote: > > > I've always had good luck with 50/50 glue and water. Elmers or Titebond. > > Oh, I had a miserable, miserable experience once sizing BR holes with > Titebond. Noisy. > > I'm not sure whether I have tried Elmers. Probably not, since I don't keep > it around. > > But really, are we sure that anything is needed other than water to size > the holes? > > It has become my standard practice to use enough water (wallpaper remover, > actually) when soaking out the BR bushings to wet the bottom of the mortise, > and make the BR hole a bit smaller. True, this makes the hole a bit jagged, > but when dry, I fit the keys to the keyframe and each set of keys getting > key bushings also gets a fresh fit of balance rail holes to the BR pins. > > Just doing key bushings and BR holes as one job seems economical enough for > me. > > > Kent > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100731/cb60e1f6/attachment.htm>
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