Elbow spinner

[David M. Porritt]

Carman:

But it's much easier and faster to simply heat the end of the wire
with a propane torch and push the elbow on the wire.  

dave

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On 2/2/2003 at 10:54 PM Carman Gentile wrote:

>This is probably not an original idea, but I have not seen or heard
of 
>it yet.
>
>    A handy tool to spin new plastic spinet elbows onto the drop
sticker 
>wires is a TUNING FORK.  I figured it out in a moment of 
>desperation.  Place a tubular hammershank repair sleeve on the stem
of a 
>"John Walker" blue steel fork and chuck it into a drill-driver.  The
fork 
>engages the plastic elbow very well to spin it onto the wire.
>
>   Learn other great techniques at the sunny California State
Conference 
>this month.  Visit the link at www.ptg.org/events.php
>
>Carman Gentile RPT
>
>
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David M. Porritt
dporritt@mail.smu.edu
Meadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75275
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