[CAUT] [pianotech] Baldwin Accujust

[Fred Sturm]

Thanks, Ron! Just what I wanted. I'll have to consider how to make a  
slide hammer end, with materials and tools on hand.
Regards,
Fred Sturm
University of New Mexico
fssturm at unm.edu



On Apr 24, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:

> Fred Sturm wrote:
>>    I'm about to do my first accujust restring this summer (donated  
>> L), and have questions about procedure: the tap down tool I assume  
>> is something on the order of a rod with a hole drilled in it, just  
>> above the size of the pins, and I was thinking of making one of  
>> brass. Is that a good idea?
>
> Mild steel is fine, or even unhardened drill rod. The wire is still  
> considerably harder than any of these.
>
>
>> For lifting, I was thinking of a slide hammer of some sort, rather  
>> than prying against the plate (with a wooden fulcrum), but haven't  
>> come up with an easy to make jig to fit around the pin under the  
>> string and pull up. Anyone have such a design? Or is prying with a  
>> coil lifter just fine?
>
> A coil lifter works, but is too big in diameter and awkward (for me,  
> at least).
>
> The first one I strung way back when, I cobbled together a slide  
> hammer. The business end is mild steel, shaped, carburized with an  
> oxyacetylene torch to case harden it, and then tempered back some.  
> Must have worked, since I haven't managed to break it yet. As usual,  
> it was thrown together in minimum time, in case it didn't work or  
> broke immediately, so is typically ugly. Works great though.
>
> Ron N
> <vhitch hammer2.jpg>