[CAUT] key bushings

[Barbara Richmond]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] key bushings


>
>> I vote for Spurlock key bushing cauls. I've used a Bushmaster and found
>> it to be a very good tool, fast and accurate. However, I stopped using it
>> because of the enormous amount of very expensive key bushing cloth left
>> over, usually in pieces too short to be of any use. With the Spurlock
>> system, you will only have a small piece of cloth left over with each
>> strip of cloth you use.
>
> Or you can use the brass or aluminum cauls, inserting two sides (ends) at
> a time and trimming as you go for near zero waste. The nicest thing about
> the Bushmaster system is the idiot resistant uniformity of insertion depth
> of the cloth. If your eyeball insertion gage is adequately dependable, the
> single or double caul system uses less cloth. Speed is probably more
> operator rather than system specific with either approach, and none of
> them qualify as being particularly fun.
>
> Ron N
>

I might be the only person in the world who couldn't get the Spurlock
system to work for me (First half was great, second half...groan.).  Maybe
it was too many years & sets done with the aluminum cauls--I have my system
down pat.  I do like his sizing cauls to use after steaming out the old
bushings, though.

Barbara Richmond, RPT
near Peoria, Illinois