>Hi to all: > >My friend again wonders about the advantages or disadvantages of running the >balance rail bushing cloth through the slots of the keybutton and up to the >top surface. A cross section of the bushing area might look something like >this: > Keybutton > ___ ___ / > | |\ \| | > |___|\ \|___| > \\\\\* *\\\\\ -- The slashes represent bushing cloth > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > | | > -- -- > -- -- > -- > > >thanks for your input > >Jim Coleman, Sr. > Hi Jim's friend, via Jim, I think that's just an artifact of a manufacturing expedient where the buttons are bushed in gang fashion with a single strip of cloth before they are installed on the key. I doubt any functional advantage in use. If you were getting paid by the hour, and didn't have any real work to do to justify your continued existence for the rest of the day, and are relatively desperate for a source of aggravation, you might consider threading bushing cloth through the holes and reproducing the original look when re-bushing. Otherwise... nah. Ron
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