<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Jack,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>On rereading I noticed that you did say that the holes were an odd size...do you mean that they are short mortises in the buttons?  We machined a set of Bill's cauls to use for shorter mortises.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Debbie Legg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=jackhouweling@dccnet.com href="mailto:jackhouweling@dccnet.com">Jack Houweling</A> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:29 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Key Bushing</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello everyone,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am rebushing a set of keys for a Chickering grand and the balance pin holes are an odd size and do not fit any of my Spurlock cauls.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What do you do in this situation? Do you special order cauls or can you make them yourself?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I quickly made a set of mortise sizing cauls out of maple and so far they have worked good. I now have to make the key bushing cauls I and II. I will be using maple again because it is all I have and I find it easy to work with. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope this is a good way to do this or if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jack Houweling</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>