Balance Rail Bushings

[David Love]

I have both but don't care for the amount of bushing cloth wasted by the
Bushmaster system.

 

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net
www.davidlovepianos.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Michael Magness
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:45 AM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: Balance Rail Bushings

 

 

On Jan 3, 2008 11:43 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:



>> What?  Bill was the first with a logical key re-bushing system...way
>> before Bushmaster...he and Fern did conventions for years...
>
> OK ,Then I say the Bushmaster long before Spurlock's. 

I used something that worked exactly like the Bushmaster over
30 years ago, and it was old then. I don't know who made it,
or what it was called.
Ron N


I've used Bill's system, the single caul method for several years now and
like it very much. I've heard positive and negative about the brass cauls
some like to use an iron on a cool setting on the brass cauls to "set" the
sizing, which makes some sense and isn't possible with Bill's cauls. If I
find that to be necessary, I use a pencil type soldering iron, a 25 watt
type, with the soldering tip removed and a short piece of brazing rod in
it's place. On the negative side I've seen posts about having to remove glue
from the brass cauls, never a problem with Bill's cauls. Also a  negative
for the brass cauls/Bushmaster for me at least would be the cost, they cost
about twice as much and suggest the necessity of the tool which is
expensive. Bill's cauls are easy to handle and measuring the amount of cloth
by eye is a short learning curve.  


Mike
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Michael Magness
Magness Piano Service
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www.IFixPianos.com
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