pin height, driving fluid, beckets

[Jon Page]

I perfer to keep things simple.
It seems to me that dipping a pin in varnish and driving it into the hole will
leave most (if not all) of the material on the top of the pin block. A squeege
effect. Swabbing the hole would be more effective. [elaboration eliminated]
For pin height, how about a block of 'hammer trimmings ' felt; although the
"becket tool" also doubles as a pin height gage with the benefit of uniform
beckets (beginners included).

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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At 05:19 PM 6/13/97 -0700, you wrote:
>(Driving new tuning pins in to a uniform depth:)
>
>> I tried a shank taped to the punch, but it kept moving.
>>Whadya think? Regards, Sam Grossner. 
>
>I tape a shank to the punch with duct tape, the whole length of the shank,
>and I drive in the pins and stop when the shank is a hairsbreadth _above_
>the plate. That way the measurement doesn't change. A good light helps.
>Susan