----- Original Message ----- From: <JIMRPT@AOL.COM> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: December 20, 2000 7:01 AM Subject: Danger technical content!! > Et Al; > Well this year I searched for THE item dejure and settled on a 1/2 ton > bearing press. :-) > What I bought it for was to press out old keyweights and to press in new > keyweights. It also will do an exemplary job of expanding the weight to stay > snug in the hole. > I have made several different sized 'tips' to fit on the press drift to > match different sized weights. In addition I have made an 'asterick' shaped > tip for expanding all size weights. ------------------------------------------------------- With suitable 'tips,' they also work quite nicely for pressing in capstans, backchecks, etc. Del
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