The term "Tuning Hammer"??

[Elwood Doss]

Hadn't thought of driving tuning pins using the tuning lever (hammer) as
a pin setter.  Only one question:  How do you get the thing off the pin?
Wouldn't the blow wedge the head on the pin? You'd need to heat up the
head to get it off, I presume.  Now that I think of it, I'm glad I
didn't!  Pun intended!
Joy!
Elwood

Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Nereson [mailto:dnereson at 4dv.net] 
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:48 AM
To: tune4u at earthlink.net; Pianotech List
Subject: RE: The term "Tuning Hammer"??

	When a unison needs to be aligned to its hammer, rather than
fish out a
separate hammer for tapping the string spacing tool, I just use the
"hammer" end of the tuning hammer.
	Once in a while a balance rail pin (key pin) will work its way
out of the
balance rail, sticking way up above the key button, and I'll tap it back
in with the tuning hammer.  [I know, I know, but this is a cheap spinet
that only gets tuned every 7 years.]
	If it weren't a "nice" tool that you don't want to bang up, you
could
also use it for driving tuning pins by placing it on the pin to be
driven
in, then hitting the rear flat surface with some other hammer, but then
they make a special tool for that.  But in a pinch (?) . . . .
	--David Nereson, RPT