This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Use tweezers! Seriously -- the ones I use have very slender bent tips, originally = designed to pick up itty bitty little pieces of hot silver solder in = jewellery making. If any piano person asks why the heat shields on the = handles, they're told it is for when the punchings get too hot. The tweezers commonly sold in hardware stores or supply houses with the = big blunt rounded tips are so clumsy by comparison. Z! Reinhardt RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20 To: Pianotech@ptg.org ; caut@ptg.org=20 Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:06 PM Subject: getting punch(y)ings Over the years I have tried a number of different ways of holding = punchings while leveling keys. I keep them in a compartment box, (you = know, the kind with about 24 1" share cubicles). But to get one out has = always been a challenge. When I reach my fingers in the cubicle, I wind = up picking up three or four of them. The thick punching aren't too bad, = but those thin ones are a struggle. I've put them in the palm of my = hand, and I've laid them on a flat surface. But I still have difficulty = picking up just one punching, unless I wet my finger. And when you're = leveling keys, your fingers have a tendency to get dirty, so that isn't = too sanitary.=20 So, what are some of you doing? Any tricks any one is willing to pass = along to make leveling keys easier and more sanitary.=20 Wim=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/d9/a3/17/82/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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