What do "they" do: Replace Windshield

[Garret Traylor]

Hi All,
Most people who come to our store ask for a small gauge bass string and not
plain wire to help them remove a windshield?  Does anyone have experience to
know really what size works best?  I have been told the plain wire does not
grab like the "sawing" finer winding on the bass string.
Kindest Regards,
Garret 

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Carl Teplitski
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:56 PM
To: ilvey at sbcglobal.net; Pianotech List
Subject: Re: What do "they" do

Right ! !   Had a fellow ask me if I could sell him about 6 ft. of wire. 
Being curious as
for what reason he needed the wire, he told me that he is replacing a 
windshield on
a car, and he needs the wire to take off an old windshield at an auto 
wrecking yard.
He gets it started under one side of the winshield and works it to the other

end.
Says it works like a charm.  Good on him.

Carl / Winnipeg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 6:53 PM
Subject: RE: What do "they" do


> Wim,
>
> I've got a question...how is tuning in paradise working out?
>
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
>
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Willem Blees" <wimblees at aol.com>
> To: Pianotech at ptg.org
> Received: 6/8/2008 4:25:26 PM
> Subject: What do "they" do
>
>
>>This afternoon I fixed my Lazy Boy chair with a piece of number 20 wire, 
>>heavy duty
>>wire cutters and a small screw. When I wondered what "they", (other 
>>people), do
>>for common house hold repairs. I don't know how many times I've used not 
>>just
>>piano tuning tools, but also piano parts for?repairs around the house. Is 
>>this a great
>>profession, or what?
>
>
>>Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT
>>Piano Tuner/Technician
>>Honolulu, HI
>>Author of
>>The Business of Piano Tuning
>>available from Potter Press
>>www.pianotuning.com