They have a tool that is a strap, with a handle, that could do it with the base in a vice. It is a bigger version, of the oil filter remover. Regards, John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net> To: <mick@laughinggravy.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:41 PM Subject: RE: newbie question: stocking strings > Mick, > > I wish I had that problem. I have a complete set of metric and American size > wire, all in the metal containers. I recently tried to open one for some > reason > or another and couldn't. Made me wonder how I was going to open them when > I actually run out of one of the sizes! Anyone have a suggestion? I don't have > vise grips that big! :-) > > Avery > > P.S. What is "splinging"? I love it! :-) It just about describes what happens! > > At 10:01 PM 01/16/03 +0000, you wrote: > > > >>Get a half kilo roll of sizes 13 to 21 and nice containers to keep them > >in. > > > >Absolutely... but I for one hate those metal containers. If you drop one and > >it opens, the wire coil jumps out, splinging eveywhere. > > > >I like to keep piano wire in waxed paper, coils held together with garden > >wire. > > > >Mick Danby CMIT > > > >_______________________________________________ > >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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