[CAUT] RE : key bushings

[Mark Dierauf]

Barbara -

  Are you gluing the cloth or the wood? One of the best tips that I
gleaned from Spurlock's system was to use a popsicle stick to apply the
glue to the cloth. Using the stick instead of the brush gives me much
better control over the glue.
  
  Getting a consistent depth of cloth takes a little practice, but after
doing a couple of sets it's no longer a problem for me. I suspect that
this system will never be as fast as the Bushmaster, though.

- Mark Dierauf

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Richmond [mailto:piano57 at insightbb.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 10:36 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] RE : key bushings

Thanks, Marcel.  Someone else suggested that to me privately, also.
Believe
me, I tried it and other positions--working at other heights--anything I
could think of.  Maybe it was hard because it was a set of S&S D keys
that
are long, I'm short and the backchecks were in the way and if I got the
keys
low enough, my back hurt.

A backache is one thing, but the real problem was that I couldn't get
the
glue or the depth of the cloth right--too much glue, too little glue,
sometimes getting glue where it I didn't want it...   The depth was my
biggest concern (well, besides having the bushings fall out)--with one
caul, it's no problem for me and I can comfortably sit at my work bench
while I'm working.

I guess I must have been doing something horribly wrong.  On the other
hand,
I have all these sets of single cauls that I don't need to replace.  ;-)

Barbara Richmond, RPT
the oddball near Peoria, Illinois

PS  I prefer using a C fork, too.  <big grin>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcel Carey" <mcpiano at videotron.ca>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 7:21 PM
Subject: [CAUT] RE : key bushings


> Barbara,
>
> I like the Spurlock system but, I have to use the same hand and can
only
> bush from right to left. This means I have to turn the whole keyclamp
> around to do the second pass. I know what you meant by "second
> half...groan". Thry turning the keys around for the second half.
>
> Marcel Carey, RPT
> Sherbrooke, QC
>
>> >
>>
>> I might be the only person in the world who couldn't get the
>> Spurlock system to work for me (First half was great, second
>> half...groan.).  Maybe it was too many years & sets done with
>> the aluminum cauls--I have my system down pat.  I do like his
>> sizing cauls to use after steaming out the old bushings, though.
>>
>> Barbara Richmond, RPT
>> near Peoria, Illinois
>>
>>
>
>