Allan, Did you bring enough to share?... Cheers! Horace At 11:03 PM 2/11/2008, you wrote: >Very good referral, but the math stickler in me must point out that >the transverse pin is described in the original article as being >tangentially placed and this is not correct. If it were a tangent, >it would be wholly (wholely? wooley? holy?) outside the dowel and >only touching it in one little itty-bitty (yes, those are the >correct scientific terms) spot. The pin actually forms a secant--the >first dictionary definition of which is "a straight line >intersecting a curve at two or more points", although it may be >said, ha ha, that when the aforementioned curve is, in fact, any arc >part (not unlike the Kalahari termite-eating aard vark or the common >expression in the poorer neighborhoods of Hellstinky, to wit, >"digging this ditch makes me tired, Ollie, it shur is ard vark") but >I digress, as is my want (or need) and, at the risk of repeating >myself in any sort of repetitious, redundant, reiterative, echoing >sort of over and over again way, <insert breath here> I restate once >or twice more that when the afiveorsixmentioned curve is any arc >part of a circle, there can be neither a number greater than nor >fewer than exactly two (2) intersections, more or less. This is sort >of true even if one of the said common loci (a rare bird, indeed), >hereinafter called the "intersection" has a posted stop sine and the >other has a lightly tan gent waving his little bobby baton at your >recalcitrant, denser-than-a-neutron-star noggin and requesting that >you sine the summons he hands you and that your spouse must, >likewise (or dislikewise, more likely; or perhaps more dislikely, or >even less likely, "unlikely") cosine the dang thing, for heaven's >sake so you can get on with your pitiful life--all for the patently >egregious crime of "failing to yield." Failing to yield, that is, >the appropriate and traditional under-the-table remuneration into >the greasy outstretched palm of said upright, uptight, upstanding >(and downright lying) constable, or con-unstable, as it were (and >still am).Glad I was able to enlighten you all and straighten this >hole thing out and I sincerely apologize for doing so. I suggest you >not bother reading this message at all, or have someone read it to >you, perhaps in German, it'll make a lot more sense maybe. Or have >them read it in Germany, while you stay here in the good old "You-Us >of Eh?" soaking your gluttonous maximum in a pink bubbly bath set up >in your rump room. Won't that be jolly fun, eh what?Baa Hamburg! >(Ewe said it.) Alan BarnardTrickonometry Professor in Salem, MOAnd >the frightening thing is, he is stone cold sober and considered >mildly sane by some very questionable folks.----- Original message >----------------------------------------From: "Scott Jackson" To: >"Pianotech List" Received: 2/11/2008 11:45:33 PMSubject: Re: hitch >pin loop tool>hitch pin loop toolThere was a message from Greg >Newell way back in 2003. It>can be found >at:>https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/26/77/a6/75/attachment.htm>And >i believe the attached file is a picture of it, but don't ask me >where i>found it, cause i can't find it now!>Scott Jackson>----- >Original Message ----- >From: David Ilvedson>To: caut at ptg.org ; >pianotech at ptg.org>Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:34 AM>Subject: >hitch pin loop tool>I have always duplicated hitchpin loops on >single strings with my round>needle nose and a vice-grip. It seems >to me there was a simple tool using a>dowel and a screw? I'm talking >about field work here.>David Ilvedson, RPT>Pacifica, CA >94044>Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.>Checked by AVG Free >Edition. >Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.2/1224 - Release >Date: 1/14/2008 5:39 >PM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080211/0ffe04ab/attachment.html
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