Key machine photo

[Mark Story]

Clark,

That would indeed be brutal. The "Safe-T" part of the Safe-T-Plainer is that
if you keep your fingers vertical it would be difficult to cut them.
I still treat it a potential maiming device. I am more careful now because
last July I cut my middle finger on my left hand on my band saw. I was
trying to cut some Delignate with a dull blade which burst my finger into
the blade when it came out of the cut. The cut went half-way through the
bone at the first knuckle and severed the extensor tendon. The surgeon
stitched the tendon and inserted a pin through the middle of the bone almost
to the second knuckle. This I had to wear for eight weeks. In the seventh
week, though, the finger became inflamed with a bacterial infection that
included the bone.
We don't know why - it could have been carried into the bone with the
original injury and sat dormant for seven weeks because of the poor blood
supply to the bone or it could have been an opportunistic infection from the
surgery. In any case it turned out to require another surgery and about five
weeks of four or five different IV antibiotics. Eventually I had to
administer this myself. The last one we used finally worked, and not too
soon since my catheter vein gave out a couple of days before the end of the
treatment and we were running out of antibiotics. Now I get to keep my
finger though I have limited mobility at the injured knuckle and my second
knuckle still hasn't limbered up completely - makes it a little hard to
reach the high e string on the guitar. Great fun.

Mark Story, RPT
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, Washington

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: Key machine photo


> At 03:05 PM 03/16/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> > If anyone wants a copy of this photo that hasn't already requested it,
> please
> > try to download it from my FTP server. The server is IP address
> > 146.187.103.25 You should be able to access this directory by typing
into
> the
> > address box of your browser: <ftp://146.187.103.25>ftp://146.187.103.25
and
> > select the file "keycutter3.jpg". Hope this works. I don't think my
machine
> > is on our Domain Name Server with a friendly name yet, but the numeric
name
> > should work. I'll try it myself tonight.
> >
> > Mark Story, RPT
> > Eastern Washington University
> > Cheney, Washington
>
>
> How do you stabilize the key?
>
> I have a similar setup. A drill press vise holds the key and a 3/4" plunge
> router
> bit in the drill press planes the surface. I also have a clear plastic
guard
> which
> shields the cutter.  Open blades make me nervous.
>
> On the vise is an indexing stop for the front of the key and then a fence
on
> the
> table stops the forward motion of the vise to insure identical routed
lengths.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Jon Page,   piano technician
> Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.
> mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net
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