Sierra changer bushings

Tom Althoff · Post by **Tom Althoff** » 23 Jan 2004 8:07 am

I'm adding a lowering rod to pedal #8 of my Session D-10. I have the proper length rod. I also have the crosswise cylindrical bushing and a short lengthwise one. According to the manual I need to add a "long" lengthwise one to the mix.

1) Can someone tell me the length of the "long" changer bushing. I'm guessing 1".

2) Can anyone recommend a source to buy rods/bushings for the Sierra Session series? Any word from the new owners of Sierra?

3) Does anyone have any rods/bushings laying around that they'd like to sell?

4) Any suggestions for a source of nylon tubing that could be cut to length as a substitute for the Sierra part?[This message was edited by Tom Althoff on 23 January 2004 at 08:09 AM.]

Ole Dantoft · Post by **Ole Dantoft** » 23 Jan 2004 8:27 am

Tom,
I don't have my Sierra right here with me at the moment, but I'd say the long bushing would indeed be VERY close to 1" in length.

I don't think the actual material it's made from is terribly important, so if you can find just about ANY piece of tubing of the approximate diameter, I'd say you'd be safe !

Hope that helps !

Ole

Rainer Hackstaette · Post by **Rainer Hackstaette** » 23 Jan 2004 9:25 am

Tom,

the long bushing tube is indeed 1 inch long, the short one is 3/4". For a lower you need both (as you know, of course).

As a substitute, a piece of aluminum tube of the right inner/outer diameter and proper length should work.

I have no idea where you might find pull rods, other than this forum.

Rainer

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Remington D-10 8+7, Sierra Crown D-10 gearless 8+8, Sierra Session S-14 gearless 8+5, '77 Emmons D-10 8+4, Sho~Bud Pro-I 3+5, Fender Artist D-10 8+4, Peavey Session 400 LTD, Peavey Vegas 400

Tom Campbell · Post by **Tom Campbell** » 23 Jan 2004 9:49 am

Try a hardware store. I bought the exact nylon spacers at my ACE hardware store. They are usually located in the area that sells bushings, thumb screws, and misc. hardware. There is usually a complete display of nylon parts.

Sierra Session U12, Lap-8

Tom Althoff · Post by **Tom Althoff** » 23 Jan 2004 10:26 am

Thanks all! I have an ACE store just over the NY/NJ border near me...I'll check it out today.

I'd try Ronzoni macaroni as a bushing but my wife and I have an agreement...She doesn't take anything from my workshop if I don't take anything from her kitchen!

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 23 Jan 2004 11:01 am

I've often thought that it would be nice to have a 1 3/4" bushing for the lowers, instead of combining two.

Ole Dantoft · Post by **Ole Dantoft** » 23 Jan 2004 12:44 pm

Tom A.
Good one

Ole

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 23 Jan 2004 12:57 pm

In reviewing my 3meg pictures of the Sierra bins, that I took at the auctions. I saw MANY bushings, and most were in boxes from generic fastener sources. Most of the "fittings" were merely ordered and not "specially made" or jobbed.

Lots of times locally for such things I use Tacoma Screw Company, or Humke Screw Co.

If there indeed is or was a "beauty" of these aluminum milled complexities, it is that replacement parts or additions were possibly meant to be done with "standard" parts, from the heim joints to axles rods and bushings.

It might indeed take a bit of searching, but internet searches like "fasteners, bushings, and fittings" in Google or other searches sometimes take some imagination.

I've had good luckin finding parts to redesign my Sho~Bud changers.

EJL

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 23 Jan 2004 4:34 pm

McMaster Carr is a good sourse for misc hardware,they have all sorts of sizes of just about everything.

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Tom Althoff · Post by **Tom Althoff** » 23 Jan 2004 7:55 pm

Thanks Ole! That's my wife's joke.

McMaster Carr!!!! Why didn't I think of them? You can buy a brass/bronze bushing that is exactly the same as what they sell in guitar stores as a finger slide for 1/3 the price.

I'll check and see what they have listed under nylon bushings.

I agree Eric...I like the construction of the Sierra very much. And if I can use off the shelf parts all the better.

It's interesting how "international" the Sierra brand is based upon the locations of those responding to this post. Makes it feel like a small world after all! At least more people own Sierra's than Multi-Kords!

Jim Palenscar · Post by **Jim Palenscar** » 23 Jan 2004 10:42 pm

Please let me know if you are unable to come up with what you need- I have a lot of that kind of stuff around here~~

Tom Althoff · Post by **Tom Althoff** » 24 Jan 2004 8:12 am

The local ACE didn't have any bushings but did have roll pins. Here's what the final assembly looks like. The pin is just 1/4" shorter than it should so the hex head is recessed 1/4" deeper than all the others but that is acceptable to me.

I have posted a pic in a while..let me see if this works.... http://www.k2ta.com/sierra_rod.jpg