The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited

[David Love]

I take the tension down, use a becket breaker to shear off the becket, and
then back the pins out through the coil.  Cut the wire at the agraffes to
remove the tenor and bass and slip the treble wire through the capo bar. 
It goes pretty quickly with not popping wire or stress on the wrists.  

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 7/27/2003 10:32:08 AM
> Subject: Re: The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited
>
>
> This brings up another question, or maybe the same one. I've tried all 
> sorts of things when de-stringing. I've cut them at the counter bearing
and 
> pulled them straight up off of the pins (lots of sparks and shrapnel and 
> too hard on the wrists), clipped the beckets with a hollow punch (the
loose 
> pieces are still in the pin and eternally resist me lifting the coil off
of 
> the pin), cut the string at the coil and backed the pins coil and all out 
> with the drill (this isn't bad), spun the pins out without cutting 
> anything, depending on the becket to break by itself (more sparks, 
> occasional terrifying and painful surprises [not recommended]), cut the 
> wire somewhere between becket and agraffe and pried the becket and coil
off 
> with the modified screwdriver (which is what I seem to come back to).
>
> I know the preferred method is to have a sacrificial shop slave do it,
but 
> what do the rest of you do when you have to do your own work?
> Ron N
>
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