Binding Hammer Flange

[Jon Page]

Good tip , Joe; thanks.

Jeannie, here's one for the journal.

Jon Page


At 08:11 AM 9/13/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Richard,  I hope that he ment the same size pin too.  A week ago , working
>an old Lester 52" upright, I had the similar situation. The birds eye was
>size 24 and the bushings were shot.
>As I only have one size larger before using a finishing nail, <G>  I
>decided to try to shrink the hole size,  The problem in my mind was how to
>do this without having a birds eye with a serious travel needs.
>Filling the hole and letting it dry would have called for the use of 
>drilling by hand as there was not a drill press at hand. Sooooooo using
>water to swell the wood, and drying with my Unger heat source and freezing
>the wood with CA glue the birds eye now was a size 19
>and did not need any traveling. I must have been lucky. Any way I would do
>this repair again when the same size parts are not available, new or used,
>or if it is an old clunker like this Lester
>Joe Goss
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>>  So I pulled the pin. eased the bushing and reinstalled the pin (I didn't
>>  have a bigger pin here in this case) It _still_ turned in the butt.
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