Becket breaker?

[Allen Wright]

that can work, Diane...I've done it in the past on plates I wasn't  
worried about cosmetics on (because there will inevitably be some  
scratches), but once in a while I'd get a becket that wouldn't break,  
and the pin would go on winding so that the string went all the way  
flat but then backup in pitch again in the other direction -   
obviously not a good thing - so you have to be careful to avoid that!  
I use a becket breaker, myself.

Allen Wright


On Jul 5, 2008, at 8:53 AM, Diane Hofstetter wrote:

> Am I slow, or what?
>
>  For 30 years now I have been carefully breaking the beckets and  
> then extracting the tuning pins from the block using an electric  
> drill.
> Today I was having problems getting the wire to break at the  
> beckets and was getting frustrated.
>
> Since I had just purchased a new drill, I sat down to learn about  
> it and get my mind off those durned beckets.  I finished assembling  
> the drill and decided to try it out on some of the pins where I  
> thought I had succeded in breaking the wire at the beckets.
>
> A couple of pins came out nicely and the new drill felt great in my  
> hands (much lighter than the old one).  Then, on to the next pin  
> and zing! snap! the becket broke while I was taking the pin out!
>
> So I tried it on another pin--it snapped the wire at the becket as  
> I was pulling the pin out!  So I removed all the treble wire that  
> way, after looking closely at the stringing pattern and trying to  
> remove pins in a pattern that generally had a pin immediately to  
> the left of the one that I was removing, thus giving the wire  
> something to hit against.
>
> Have I been wasting all that time breaking beckets all these  
> years?   Does everybody else simply break the beckets at the same  
> time as taking the pins out?
>
>
> Diane Hofstetter






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