guide rails

edwardsn edwardsn@www.rpa.net
Thu, 01 Feb 1996 06:54:39 -0500


At 04:37 AM 2/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>I'd like to add a suggestion re: a tool that Susan Graham used to use for
>>this kind of work - a specially turned piece of all thread of the right
>>diameter for a 25 watts soldering iron.  I have several diameters for
>>different jobs, have used them for years, and feel that they have saved me
>>countless hours of working with less efficient and effective means of sizing
>>bushings.
>>
>Edited post, sorry for the mistakes-
>I have taken the threaded rod, drilled an appropiate size hole into the
center of one end and then glued in a bridge pin for sizing bushings.  This
is a little easier then
>turning down the rod on a drill press.  I think I use a number 6 bridge pin
for damper guide rails but its been a few years since I made them up. I also
use a voltage regulator with the soldering iron so that the felt doesn't get
scorched.
>Rob Edwardsen, RPT
>Rochester Chapter
>edwardsn@rpa.net
>
>
Rob Edwardsen, RPT
Rochester Chapter
edwardsn@rpa.net




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