[pianotech] Damper guide rail bushing cloth

William R. Monroe bill at a440piano.net
Mon Mar 22 15:16:10 MDT 2010


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
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