TP coils

[David ilvedson]

> From:          Billbrpt <Billbrpt@aol.com>
> Date:          Thu, 30 Apr 1998 23:51:16 EDT
> To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject:       Re: TP coils
> Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org

> In a message dated 4/30/98 7:16:06 PM Central Daylight Time,
> rootfamily@erols.com writes:
> 
> << Let me contribute something constructive to this becket(t) discussion. 
>  Make a pair of becket pliers.  Buy small, cheap slip-joint pliers. 
>  Grind or hack saw off about 1/2" of one tip.  Grind off the serated jaws
>  into two concave surfaces (to conform to the sides of the tuning pin). 
>  Credit to the late Gene Elfes, RPT.
>   >>
> A very good comment which preceded the above, Carl, I just did not want to
> copy it. 

Oh god help us... their bonding right before our eyes.  Our 
only hope is Bill's comment on the becket tool.  Carl, don't let 
him get away with it.  

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA









 And not to take issue with your suggestion for a tool, it is a 
good
> one and I'm sure it works well.  However, we all need to have tools which will
> perform many functions and that are small so that they can be included in our
> general tool kit.  A medium sized pair of Vice-Grip pliers, with no
> modification,  has always worked for me as the best tool for the job of becket
> squeezing.  These pliers, of course, can perform many other functions so they
> are a regular part of my general tool kit and were also part of my stringing
> tools.  I even found that they were more erffective than a "becket closing"
> tool that I had that would have only been part of a stringing kit.
> 
> Bill Bremmer RPT
> Madison, Wisconsin
> 
>