TP coils

[Jon Page]

The 'fashioned' pliers is a nice piece of work, but . . . work.
Vice-Grips are another handy tool.
But what has worked for me for many years for squeezing
the becket tightly to the pin is parallel pliers and in really tight
situations - needle nose pliers.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At 11:51 PM 4/30/98 EDT, you wrote:
>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.  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
>
>