William Truitt wrote: > Flawed technique on your part I would say. Add 200 lb weights to each foot > before you hang from the tuning hammer, and you will be surprised how easy > they move after that. I have been having problems with my shoulders > dislocating though. No wonder. You should be adding inch pounds, not foot pounds. Piano tuners are usually in pretty good shape between the navel and neck, being used to trolling monolithic objects around with one hand on the lever, so it's not the torque that's really the problem. It's the lack of control. My hybrid block installations produce tighter pins than most tuners like, until they eventually realize they don't have to fight the things. Even that tight, they're easy to control. The Chinese produced blocks we were discussing, and those Kimballs, aren't. The last couple of years the Thomaston Yamaha plant was open, the pinning of the pianos coming out was almost as bad. Ron N
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