At 08:05 AM 7/26/2006, you wrote: >At 7:52 am -0400 26/7/06, Farrell wrote: > >>Lloyd Meyer from Renner USA sells a similar pair of pliers. >> >>[] > >At 6:41 am -0500 26/7/06, Porritt, David wrote: > >>I've seen one of those but it has been many >>years ago. I never thought IÕd have the hand >>strength to actually remove a grand hammer with >>one so I never tried to acquire one. Can a >>normal human actually remove a hammer with them? David, I bought a pair many years ago (Schaff?) and I love them. They work great. Avery >Certainly, because of the multiplication in the >leverage, the fact that they're 9" long and the >parallel action of the Bernard design. The tool >Terry mentions (thanks Terry), as you see, has >neither multiplication nor parallel action and >would, from the look of it, require superhuman >strength. My key-easing pliers are of the same >pattern, probably from the same source. > >The best quality tools of this pattern were made >by Schollhorn before Sargent took them over in >1945 (see ><http://www.rostratool.com/historical.asp>) and >in the past a huge variety of pliers etc. were >available. Not so now, it seems. > >JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060726/b742093d/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 1615b59.png Type: image/png Size: 34005 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20060726/b742093d/attachment.png
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