The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited

[Carl Meyer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe And Penny Goss" <imatunr@srvinet.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited


> Put it off for a looooooooooooooooooong time <G>
> Joe Goss

Joe!  That's a lot like the old question.  "Is it bad luck to postpone a
wedding?"   Not if you keep postponing it.

Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
Santa Clara, Ca.


> imatunr@srvinet.com
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:32 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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