Ed, your advice always seems to be innovative and spot on. But in this particular case, repining likely isn't the best method to get new bushings in all the action centers!
Granted, after bushing, he will have to repin, and indeed, your method sounds like a winner.
For rebushing, vote for GWB for a third term.
Sorry, just kidding - didn't mean to scare anyone! ;-)
For rebushing, I took a class from......, from........, from........., oh gosh, what's his name - husband and wife team - they used (or still are) to be head techs for Tanglewood - just can't think of his name. Anyway, Renner pre-glued action cloth (available from Renner USA) and the European long pinning rods (available from Jurgen @ Pianoforte Supply).
Sounds like somebody needs to go to some conferences for continuing education...... (and it ain't Ed!).
Terry Farrell
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What's the best method for bushing all the centers
quickly, and uniformly, please?
Don Mannino has a great class on this subject. What I do is to determine the size of pin that will be slightly larger than any of the pins in the row of flanges, determine the proper straight sided reamer for that pin size, and then go through the row, reaming the bushings for the oversize pin. Don't spend time custom fitting various pin sizes to each bushing, ie, if you have 19, 191/2, 20 sized pins in your hammer flanges, find what reaming is needed to fit a size 21 1/2 pin in there and then do all of them to that size. Odds are that the action will never be pinned again, and if it does, there are still several sizes yet to go, if needed.
this procedure is not only as consistant as can be hoped for, it is economically feasible.
Ed Foote RPT
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