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I use the flexible extractor, also available from Schaff. It is not only handy for extracting items I drop down in the action, etc., but holds the screw sufficiently to get it started in the hammer flange hole. This is the gizmo where you press the plunger on the end and the four little springs emerge at the other end to grab your work when you release the plunger. Try it!
David Ilvedson <ilvey@sbcglobal.net> wrote:What still annoys me to this day is the upright action cradle. The U shaped hunk of steel with the threaded rod for tightening down on the action bracket isn't at a perfectly flat 90 degrees. So the cradle vears off one way or the other. Does anyone make a better one? I have seen and bought the Pianotek red things and their alright but I really like the action cradle.
David I.
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From: Dave Nereson
To: Pianotech
Received: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 01:10:01 -0600
Subject: Re: screw holders
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "J Patrick Draine"
>To: "Pianotech"
>Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 11:42 AM
>Subject: screw holders
>> What are the rest of you doing for screw holders? The Schaff "rigid shaft
>> screwholder" (#874) is next to useless for removing/replacing hammer
>> flanges screws in vertical piano actions. My old ones which looks the
>> same, from Apsco or Tuners Supply, worked fine, but I lost them (on some
>> customer's floor no doubt). The current (unless they redesigned since I
>> complained to a staffer at Nashville) Schaff version doesn't open wide
>> enough to release the screw properly. Anyone buy one recently that is
>> acceptable?
>> How about other models at other suppliers that you're satisfied with??
>> Patrick Draine
>>
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> I think I got mine from the old Tuner's Supply and it's pretty good,
>i.e., about the right size for flange screws, but also works (kinda, sorta)
>on screws much smaller and much larger. I'd like to have another one but
>all the ones I see available now are either too big to fit between action
>parts or the grabber part is so strong it will tear off chunks of finger or
>they're too stiff to operate or they're built for retrieving bolts lost
>down in the bowels of car engines! Then there's the real small type which I
>seldom use.
> The main problem with my old ("good") one is that the screw gets knocked
>sideways too easily (pointing off at a right angle instead of straight
>ahead).
> This is another example of one of my pet peeves: pianos have been
>around for 300 years, but many of the tools available for working on them
>are just terrible! And the supply houses (one large one comes to mind)
>continue to sell mediocre tools, tools that break the first time you use
>them (shank/hammer head pullers), tools that don't quite work (vertical
>backcheck benders, spoon benders), tools that are meant for doing things
>that quality rebuilders frown on (key button swaging tool), tools that are
>way bigger, heavier, and clunkier than they need be, tools that are built
>too lightly for their intended purpose, etc. etc.
> The advent of Pianotek and a few of the other smaller suppliers in
>recent decades has helped some, but, like the guy said, why isn't there a
>decent screw grabber that works??!!
> --David Nereson, RPT
>
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