Hi, Dave. HNY! Instead of starting with half/round, what about starting with a trapezoid, top not parallel to bottom, high edge is your bearing. Mill a long stick like that, drill and slice. ~ Mark Schecter On Jan 2, 2012, at 5:52 PM, "David Love" <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote: > Attached is a crude drawing of a balance rail bearing. I posted this > question on the new list in response to something but ran into a road block > trying to get this drawing posted along with it, at least easily. I've been > trying to figure out a way to produce this type of cut (the diagonal line > represents the cut) uniformly on a set of balance rail bearings such that by > turning them either with the cut facing forward or back you could change the > action leverage easily and quickly. Looking for production ideas. The > bearing would need to be cut and then probably covered with felt, although I > suppose you could simply drop an unglued punching right down on top. > > Let me know what you think. > > > David Love > <cut bearing (2).jpg>
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