I have both but don't care for the amount of bushing cloth wasted by the Bushmaster system. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Magness Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:45 AM To: Pianotech List Subject: Re: Balance Rail Bushings On Jan 3, 2008 11:43 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: >> What? Bill was the first with a logical key re-bushing system...way >> before Bushmaster...he and Fern did conventions for years... > > OK ,Then I say the Bushmaster long before Spurlock's. I used something that worked exactly like the Bushmaster over 30 years ago, and it was old then. I don't know who made it, or what it was called. Ron N I've used Bill's system, the single caul method for several years now and like it very much. I've heard positive and negative about the brass cauls some like to use an iron on a cool setting on the brass cauls to "set" the sizing, which makes some sense and isn't possible with Bill's cauls. If I find that to be necessary, I use a pencil type soldering iron, a 25 watt type, with the soldering tip removed and a short piece of brazing rod in it's place. On the negative side I've seen posts about having to remove glue from the brass cauls, never a problem with Bill's cauls. Also a negative for the brass cauls/Bushmaster for me at least would be the cost, they cost about twice as much and suggest the necessity of the tool which is expensive. Bill's cauls are easy to handle and measuring the amount of cloth by eye is a short learning curve. Mike -- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080103/896fc364/attachment.html
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