Hi Avery, I've been steaming B/R holes for a number of years with good results, buy your self an electric whistling kettle and remove the whistle thingy!!!! it gives you a nice 1/8" steam jet, and is transportable, unlike the stove. I find that glue sizing holes, tends to be a little noisier, so I only use this approach in the worse cases. Regards Roger > Something I've wondered about but never tried yet, is using steam to >help pulley keys. After I steam out the bushings I almost always have to >ease the key a little at the balance hole. I use a pressure cooker on a hot >plate so it's a fairly small stream of steam. If the CR bushings were >protected, say with cauls, why wouldn't it work to steam the holes instead >of glue sizing? Sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. Am I >overlooking a downside? Just wondering. > >Avery > Roger Jolly Balwin Yamaha Piano Centres. Saskatoon/Regina. Canada.
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