Removing key bushings - an observation

[Chris Gregg]

Doug,
	I used to do it that way, but I now find that a steamer is much faster and
cleaner.  Normally I don't have to adjust the mortices at all as there is
no residue left in there. The old felt just lifts out with a pair of tweezers.
 
Chris
At 06:15 PM 10/26/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Upon removing a set of key bushings yesterday I stumbled onto a technique 
>that made the bushings let go much faster.  My usual technique is to soak
the 
>bushings with a H2O/Wallpaper remover mix and then us a caul in a soldering 
>iron to steam them out.  This method in itself works pretty good and that's 
>is what I was doing.  However, my caul was loading up with old felt
fragments 
>and I had to take time to scrape the caul clean every 4th key or so.  I 
>thought if I stuck the caul in a jar of water perhaps the sticky old felt 
>will come off by itself or scrape off easier.  Well, it scraped off easier 
>but I also noticed that the bushings were coming out a lot faster too.
Every 
>other key I was dipping the caul in cold water and the bushings released 
>immediately upon insertion into the mortise.  I had a reostat hooked to the 
>soldering iron set on a little more then half way.
>
>It will be interesting to try this on the next bushing job to see if it 
>happens again.
>
>Doug Mahard
>
>
>
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