Front Rail Bushings

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I've found  'Dif' wallpaper remover dilluted with hot water works great for removing bushings and old dampers.

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From: Jon Page <jonpage at comcast.net> 

>...to remove the bushings was with a hot iron and damp rag.  Well, that'll work fine if I'm >replacing keytops at the same time since the steam will work the tops loose.  But I want to >remove front rail bushings only, and I want to find out something that will work better.


Use a Key Bushing Iron.  Make wetting wedges out of felt (hammer felt trimmings).
Make about 5, soak three ahead of the iron.  Add a touch of denatured alcohol to the water container as a surfactant.   A production would be to insert 3 soaked wedges into the mortices, after the first one is wetted, insert the iron.


When the bushing is sufficiently steamed, insert a newly soaked wedge into
the third one away, move the iron to the next bushing. As you go, adjust the temperature on the iron so that the bushing will be steamed enough for
removal while you are removing the previously steamed bushing.
It moves along quickly enough, figure 1 to 1.5 hr. per rail.


Once the steamed bushing is removed, insert a Spurlock sizing caul
to aid in uniform mortice dimensions.
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Regards,

Jon Page
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