Horace, So you really think they reamed both sides of the teflon bushings in the factory? I can see the under pressure factory worker doing whatever would get it out the door.... Uneven reaming is why teflon clicked...isn't it? David Ilvedson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Horace Greeley" <hgreeley@stanford.edu> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: Re: Teflon bushings: (was Re: Pinning on new flanges} > > David, > > At 12:10 AM 8/25/2004, you wrote: >>Of course the fact that Steinway routinely reamed one side of the bushing >>, i.e. one teflon bushing to get the correct friction...which led to >>clicking in the not too distant future. I can't think of anything great >>about teflon and its servicing compared to bushing cloth... > > Urban legend, perpetrated by frustrated technicians. > > Horace > > > >>David I. >> >>----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith McGavern" <kam544@gbronline.com> >>To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> >>Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:32 PM >>Subject: Teflon bushings: (was Re: Pinning on new flanges} >> >> >>>At 12:27 AM -0400 8/25/04, Sarah Fox wrote: >>>>... The problem with Steinway's Teflon blunder was the >>>>loosening of the Teflon in the wooden hole with humidity changes. ... >>> >>>Sarah, >>> >>>I have to intervene as a result of this comment. Maybe you will >>>appreciate what I have to say, maybe not. >>> >>>For the record what I am about to say is an inner unfoldment that I came >>>to solely after several years of working with repinning and/or replacing >>>teflon bushings. >>> >>>If there is to be any blunder attributed to Steinway and the teflon >>>bushing experience: >>> >>>1) it was only in that company's over evaluation of the abilities of the >>>piano technicians in the field to understand the beauty of the teflon >>>bushing in all its glory, >>> >>>2) to not forsee the unwillingness of piano technicians to invest in the >>>necessary tools to work with them, >>> >>>3) and the capacity to truly understand the techniques as to how to >>>properly replace and/or repin them. >>> >>>Those three things were, in my judgement, the main reasons for the >>>eventual undoing of the teflon bushing, not humidity changes. >>> >>>Somebody mentioned it was ahead of its time. Hardly. In my opinion the >>>general populace of piano technicians during that era were just unable to >>>embrace it, so it got the bad mouth from those who never really gave it >>>the time of day. >>> >>>Such is the way of some things. >>> >>>Keith >>>-- >>>Keith McGavern >>>Registered Piano Technician >>>Oklahoma Chapter 731 >>>Piano Technicians Guild >>>USA >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> >>_______________________________________________ >>pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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