Action friction reduction question

Paul S. Larudee larudee@pacbell.net
Sun, 03 Sep 2000 13:56:50 -0700


Actually, this is exactly the problem with a Cline (Young Chang), and exactly the
solution suggested by Phil Glenn, the head technician for Young Chang, who has had
occasion to deal with a number of these situations.

Paul S. Larudee, RPT

Richard Brekne wrote:

> Say there Roger... I was wondering... this shrinking process thingy... I run
> into a few pianos that have seemingly snug enough centers / bushings... but the
> bushing cloth used is like really soft and bushy.. you can burnish the hell out
> of this stuff without getting it "pressed to stay". Not wanting to have to
> completely replace the set of flanges, or get into rebushing.. would it work to
> "shrink" them, and then re pin ??



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