worn back checks

[Yardbird47@aol.com]

<<RE: drive
'em in to proper height,
      Is there a commercial tool made to do that, or have you made your
own?>>

a backcheck tool (APSCo 16245) chucked in a Drill Press with with Susan
Graham's plywood tilt table (PTJ 1/88).

BTW, I'm not impressed by the backcheck wire driven in perpendicular and then
bent to a bevel halfway up (Baldwin and more recently Steinway). It looks as
though it would provide better support to the hammering the check gets. But
if you want to go that kind of support, the wire needs to come right up into
the back of the check molding, directly under the hammer tail's point of
impact. Move the wire anywhere out from under that point and it's a a
cantilever (at which point you might as well have straight wires going in at
an angle.)

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, PTG

"If you are in a dilemma about where to park your car, ask your hostess. If
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spot"
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