thumb protection when re-pinning

[Marcel Carey]

Dave,

I use self-sticking guard tape. I get it from Lee Valley in Canada.
It's king of a rubberized gauze that only sticks to itself. You can
wrap it around your fingers and it will do a very good job. I use it
mainly when restringing so I don't burn my skin when I do the coil
winding.

Marcel Carey, RPT

>  Maybe
> some custom-made
> leather "thumb boot" through which a center-pin will NOT
> poke would work,
> but it would probably wear through quickly.  I need a bionic thumb!
>     Gang replacement is different, where you have all new
> flanges and you
> can chuck a roughened center pin in a drill and use that
> for the reamer,
> then just push all the same size pins through with the
> pinning tool.  But
> that's not the case with most actions I work on.
>     --David Nereson, RPT
>
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