Stringing jig - vertical hitch pin

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi,
If it were me, the point ( if it mattered as to passing ) would have been in dispute. 
After all it must be a Baldwin stringing jig<G>

Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Israel Stein 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:19 AM
  Subject: Stringing jig - vertical hitch pin


  At 05:11 PM 5/3/2007, you wrote:

    There's one big difference about the stringing jig: that darned vertical hitch pin.
     
    I did a great splice, went back and neatened up the coil... and then lost a point, because the string wasn't seated around that vertical pin.  Touching the wire at all after seating can make it walk up again... something you don't have in The Real World with an angled hitch pin.  (This was one of the very few Non-Real-World items in the tech test, by the way).
     
    --Cy--

  Cy,

  Thank you for pointing this out. The vertical hitch pin is not specified for the stringing jig. That it has made its way into actual practice is a problem that needs to be resolved. I do not normally post exam details on public discussion lists, but I will make an exception here, because this is important. It is quite possible to build the jigs with angled pins - and the jig specifications call for a steel plate bolted to the wooden block in which to mount the pins for this very reason.  That some jig builders do not do this is a problem that needs to be resolved.

  The solution will be posted on the ExamPrep and the PTG-L e-mail lists, since they are limited to PTG members only. I ask that those interested in the PTG exam subscribe to the ExamPrep list and refrain from further discussion of this matter on this public list, since authoritative details about the exam  will not be posted here.
  .
  Thank you,

  Israel Stein
  Chair, Technical Exam Subcommittee
  ETSC - PTG

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