---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment I may not have mentioned before that while it does only take me about 5=20 minutes to get all the pins out that is after the becket was broken and the= =20 string removed. I use an impact wrench and the pins come out quite warm=20 indeed but I have absolutely no intention of saving the old block. My wife= =20 is about Tracey's size and I'm quite sure would say that she couldn't do it= =20 if faced with only the Milwaukee drill. With the pneumatic impact wrench=20 the kick is just not that great. Greg At 08:08 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote: >Tracey, our 110 lb., 5' 4" shop person, pulls the whole set in about 15 to= =20 >20 minutes (including a break to rest her arms) with our trusty old=20 >Milwaukee. The pin holes show no visible damage. There is no smoke. And=20 >the pins, while suitably warm, are not too hot to pick up. > >We may even give her a break and get her an impact wrench. > >(Of course, we always replace the pinblocks anyway so the condition of the= =20 >original block really doesn't matter.) > >Del > > >---------- >From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On=20 >Behalf Of Ross White >Sent: September 08, 2005 4:37 PM >To: Pianotech >Subject: Re: Removing tuning pins with the Milwaukee Drill > >If you really spun them out, they would be too hot to touch. There might= =20 >also be wisps of smoke. If the old pins were warm but not hot, perhaps=20 >they were loose. Did any wood stick to the old pins; sometimes little=20 >bits of wood will stick to the pins. Boy Scouts start fires by this kind= =20 >of procedure, wood on wood. Friction produces heat. How long does it=20 >take you to remove a set of pins with a Milwaukee drill. Takes me a=20 >couple of hours to do it by hand; and, it's not that hard. >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:phil@philbondi.com>Phil Bondi >To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech >Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:19 PM >Subject: Re: Removing tuning pins with the Milwaukee Drill > > > >Ross White wrote: > > > If you spin tuning pins out, you're going to scorch the holes in the > > block. You don't want that. > >Ross, can you offer more explanation on this? The reason I ask is >because I just got done 'spinning' , with a hi torque-lo RPM Milwaukee >drill, the treble section of a 100 year old S&S 0, and the pins were >warm to the touch..not hot. > >I don't know for sure, but my gut tells me that I did not scorch the >holes. I would be interested to hear more about your personal experience >with this..or from anyone else for that matter since I have the rest of >the block to do yet. > >-Phil Bondi(Fl) > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info:=20 ><https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives>http://www.ptg.org/mailman/l= istinfo/pianotech Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/50/16/be/17/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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