Hi Francisco, Have the old pins been thrown away? If not there is a way to reuse them. Even if there is a build up of rust on the pins. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "afinador" <afinador at ig.com.br> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:05 PM Subject: Tuning pins more longs > I make restorations of piano in Belo Horizonte MG - Brazil. To five years > that we have used only the Denro mark for tuning pins. I am ahead of a > problem: He is in the phase of re-stringing old uprigth Bechstein. This > model is not very common in Brazil therefore its pinblock is closed (for the > iron plate) and does not possess bushings in tuning pins. The plate of iron > in pinblock has 7mm of thickness and tuning pins that I removed of there had > 75mm of length. Then. No American or German suppliment company who knows > offers tuning pins longers today (6/0 or 7/0 x 2-3/4). Will not be possible > to substitute pinblock for a budgetary question (and nor she would advance). > I promise a statue in the door of our workshop who to help me to find > tuning pins 6/0 or 7/0 longer than 2-1/2. Much thankful > Francisco Motta > afinador at ig.com.br > > >
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