Key Bushing Clearance/Friction, was: Key mortise correction

gordon stelter lclgcnp at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 12 11:20:23 MDT 2006


I thought you just lifted theckey, and let it drop. If
it falls smoothly without wobbling, that's good.    
  Thump

--- Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Two questions: How do you go about measuring key
> bushing clearance? And how much key friction does
> these specs commonly yield?
> 
> Terry Farrell
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   SNIP
>   4. Tight key bushing's.  Gently squeeze the
> bushing to have .002" clearance at BR bushings and
> .005" for FR bushing's.
> 
>   Regards Roger 


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