Chucky keys

[Avery Todd]

---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment
--=====================_1680487==.REL
--=====================_1680489==.ALT
Dave,

Have you tried steaming them first? Just curious. I find that when I 
steam out bushings
from the center rail, I usually end up having to ease the balance rail holes.

Avery

At 12:19 PM 11/16/05, you wrote:
>I've just been working on a piano that had some chucky keys.  Some 
>could be fixed by glue-sizing, but 28 needed a kerfs cut and veneer 
>inserted.  Whenever I've done this before I've just placed the kerf 
>by hand and it generally worked ok.  This time I figured a way to 
>put the kerf in exactly the right spot.  I put the key in the vice 
>and inserted a balance rail pin and held it firmly to the back of 
>the hole.  I then put the saw right against the pin and started the 
>cut.  Each of these came out exactly right with no chucking and the 
>keys lined up perfectly.
>
>I'm probably the last one in the world to discover this, but it worked!
>
>[]
>
>dp
>__________________________
>David M. Porritt, RPT
>Meadows School of the Arts
>Southern Methodist University
>Dallas, TX 75275
><mailto:dporritt@smu.edu>dporritt@smu.edu
>
>

--=====================_1680489==.ALT
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/52/53/32/12/attachment.htm

--=====================_1680489==.ALT--

--=====================_1680487==.REL
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 19a38f.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 55103 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/50/c8/e7/8f/19a38f.jpg

--=====================_1680487==.REL--

---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment

---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--