[CAUT] Mitutoyo gauge

[johnparham at piano88.com]

Ron,

That's a great visual to help understand the "squish" factor.

-John Parham

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Mitutoyo gauge
> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
> Date: Tue, December 21, 2010 6:05 pm
> To: caut at ptg.org
> 
> 
> Punching squeezers,
> I bought a low tech durometer at an estate sale cheap, a few years ago. 
> Keen little toy, intended for rubber originally, but it works fine for 
> felt too. It's a standard Shore A scale. Here's a photo of the 
> durometer, and a sampling of punchings, for your edification.
> 
> The punching on the left is from what's probably a 40+ year old bag of 
> old tuner leftovers. It's thinner than the others, but reads the same 
> when two are stacked. It reads the same as the Crescendo punchings. The 
> dark green Pianotek punching is older, and a bit firmer than the new 
> Pianotech punching of the lighter color. Same stock number. The Yamaha 
> punching should be pretty close to current stock. The Schaff punching on 
> the right is what they sold forever, though I don't know if it's what 
> they sell now.
> 
> There you go, for whatever...
> 
> Yea, I know, I spelled Crescendo wrong. <G>
> Ron N