thumb protection when re-pinning

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi David,
I have not seen you at a convention for a while.
 We now have a tool that I think addresses all of your wants.
Pictures are available on my site below.
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Nereson" <davner@kaosol.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 12:56 AM
Subject: thumb protection when re-pinning


>     When re-pinning more than, say, twenty action parts, my right thumb
> really gets poked, cut, and chewed-up from repeatedly trying the pin in
the
> birdseye of each part being re-pinned to see if it's tight enough, then
> pushing it into both bushings on the flange, individually, to see if they
> need reaming, burnishing, or re-bushing, then after reaming, trying the
pin
> in the bushings again, maybe making another touch-up operation, then
trying
> the pin in the bushings again, then pushing the pin through one bushing
into
> the birdseye, and, finally, using the plunger-type re-pinning tool only
for
> the final push through the birdseye.  That's just one flange.  After a
> couple dozen, my thumb is raw meat, as though I took a rasp to it.
>     I've tried using a thimble, but you have to keep taking it off to try
> the pin in the bushing or to pick up a fine tool like a tiny reamer,
> tweezers, or center-pin, then put it back on to push the pin through.  And
> with it on, you don't have the sensitivity or control for trying the fit
of
> the pin in the bushing.  Nor do you with pliers.  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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