Alternately, I've had good luck measuring the inside diameter of the guide rail hole with a pair of calipers and multiplying by three (rounding up). the The test strip method works very well, though. William R. Monroe On Mar 22, 2010, at 4:08 PM, PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > Al: > > Generally, damper guide rail are not all the same diameter hole. You > need to make a tapered test strip of cloth, pull it through the hole > until it is satisfying your needs, then measure the width of the > cloth at that point. Then transfer the measure to a piece of bushing > cloth and tear a strip of the proper width. > > Paul > > In a message dated 3/22/2010 3:59:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, AlliedPianoCraft at hotmail.com > writes: > Dear List, > > I had a good supply of damper rail cloth that I had been using for > years. I used the last of it, last year. I ordered some new and see > it doesn't have the cuts along the edge (similar to flange bushing > cloth) that my old damper rail bushing cloth had. Can anyone give > the proper width, to save me some trail and error tears. > > Al - > High Point, NC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100322/59a0a797/attachment.htm>
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