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Re: Buffet LH F/C Adjustment Screw

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-10-31 18:58

If you want a proper adjusting screw fitted like this to an existing Buffet of any age, then that can be done by hard soldering an adjusting screw pip onto the linkage piece (a piece of key barrel slotted to slide over the linkage piece), shorten it to the desired height (if not done already), then countersink the top end with a 2.4mm reamer, drill it all the way through with a 1.7mm drill, tap it out with an M2x0.4 tap and then have it silver or nickel plated depending on the existing finish (or left unplated if it's a much older Buffet).

I'd personally use a stainless steel adjusting screw fitted with a nylon tip as opposed to a completely nylon adjusting screw as Buffet have been using for some time now. If it's an older Buffet with mild steel screws that have been blued, then use either a chemically blackened screw, colour in a stainless steel one with a permanent marker or make one from silver steel and temper it blue to match the others if they've all been tempered blue.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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