This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I don't know anything about Schaff's bushing cloth and cutting cloth, = etc. I have been using Renner pre-cut & pre-glued bushing cloth strips = and using their flange bushing cloth sizing tool: = http://markotech.com/ECscripts/ECware.exe/dcp?id=3D002&sku=3D1855&type=3D= A1QN11&lc=3DEN These materials and tools have made rebushing flanges = painless and perfect everytime for me. Renner's long (about two feet) = center pins are very handy also when doing a bunch of flanges. Joel = Rappaport (I think it was him - the guy that does Tanglewood) did a = class at a convention a few years back on this method. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message -----=20 From: "Benny L. Tucker" <precisionpiano@alltel.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:33 PM Subject: Flange Bushing Cloth > List, > I took on one of those jobs that I didn't really want, to re-pin = the > butt flanges on an old upright action. While most bushings presented = no > problem, a few pushed out while removing the old pins. I've never = re-bushed > flanges before, so out with the Reblitz and Schaff catalog. Got my = supplies, > and following Reblitz's directions, I could not get the cloth to meet = in the > hole. Once, twice, three, four or more times I could not get this = bushing > cloth to lay in the hole gapless. So I got to measuring and = calculating and > here's what I came up with. > Flange Bushing drill =3D 7/64ths diameter. This calculates out to a = hole that > would be 11/32nds in circumference. > Flange Bushing cloth advertised as 17/64th's. That's 5/64th's less = than > needed already. The actual cloth I got out of a dozen strips was 8 = strips of > 7/32nds and 4 strips was 1/4 inch wide. > Now, am I missing something here? Am I using the wrong size drill to = ream > the old bushings out? Is there a suitable alternative to "flange = bushing > cloth", other than buying a whole yard of it and cutting myself. It = would > take me forever to use a yard of the stuff, not to mention the price = it > fairly steep just to have some on hand when the need arises. > Thanks for your help. >=20 > Benny L. Tucker > Precision Piano Tuning & Repair > Thomaston, Ga. >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/e7/e0/9b/81/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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