key bushings

[Richard Brekne]

Newton.. this is not in my experience. I have seen this kind of bowing in both bent and not bent bushings and just about as often in the one as in the other. I have always assumed it had to do with poorly distributed glue. In anycase, I never bend when rebushing,  and since (some years back) starting to be carefull to make sure the glue is equally
distributed over the entire width of the felt I have not ever experienced any such bowing.

I dont quite get the paper analogy... I mean you dont have this like solid and flat piece of wood that is glued onto the back side in the picture... and if you did.... grin... well I kinda gotta think the paper would lie just as flat... bent or not.

JMV

RicB

Newton Hunt wrote:

> Stand a piece of paper on it's end and see how it bows.  Fold the paper
> in half, lengthwise, and stand it on it's edge, see how it does not bend
> in the middle but stand tall and proud.  Have you not seen key bushings
> bowing like () this?  If they were bend at the bottom or the top they
> will not bow but will remain straight and true. :)
>
>                 Newton
>

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Richard Brekne
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