[CAUT] Key Bushing Removal

[Leslie Bartlett]

Why not just use a tea kettle and put steam right on the bushing?

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Wigent, Donald E
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 8:34 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Key Bushing Removal



Don Wigent hear:

Last night at our guild meeting we were discussing key work, and the subject
of bushing removal came up and one of the guys (Calvin Brown) told us that
he had made a tool for bushing removal by drilling holes in a bushing caul
and inserting a tube   from a tea kettle to carry steam directly in to the
bushing by means of holes drilled so as to let steam in to the upper part of
the caul.  That way you don’t have to saturate the entire key. I think that
this has been dun be for, has any one dun this. I bet you have Susan

Don Wigent 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan
Kline
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:45 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Key Bushing Removal

 

At 03:32 PM 11/7/2006, Barbara wrote:



Eventually I again hauled out the steam set up.  Maybe they came out because
they had had a "pre-soak." 



I think that the pre-soak works very well. I've come to the same result from
a different direction. I pre-soak, sometimes twice, take out what will come
out, and if they are really stubborn THEN I reach for a damp cloth and an
iron to steam them out. I don't like cooking wood unless I have to. If there
are pulley keys, I'll steam, knowing that it'll shrink the oversized holes -
but if the balance rail holes are snug, I'll try to avoid steaming, so I
don't have to resize them all later. 

Susan


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