On Aug 23, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Paul Milesi, RPT wrote: > Unhappy with my own work on this one. How can I do better next time? > What's the secret? The best technique I have found - I think a tip from Jon Page - is the illustrated tool below. It is a pliers hammer extractor that I hate for its original purpose, but reverse the screw and you have something that will hold the button against the rail pretty squarely and quite firmly, and has a slot to go around the screw at the other end. I have never been satisfied with my own button installs, but this has been the best way I have found so far. I fooled with a lot of other things, including those pliers made for dowel capstans (next best). Heck, I've got the camera, and the tool is right here, so here's another picture. What you want is to hold the darned button precisely at a right angle, and doing it by hand may just be impossible. But maybo someone else will chime in with a better plan. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P8230005.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 17359 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100823/9a6a7855/attachment-0002.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P8230001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 16744 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100823/9a6a7855/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "I am only interested in music that is better than it can be played." Schnabel
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