[pianotech] tools

[David Stocker]

Marshall,

I agree with David. A brace was the perfect, and perhaps only intelligent tool in the forties! You can buy flat screwdriver blades for your socket wrench, and while you are at it, dig up a large Phillips bit or even a torx for that one overly brilliant manufacturer. 

If you really want to be a tool ninja, get some air tools to do it.

David Stocker, RPT
Tumwater, WA

From: Porritt, David 
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 07:27
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] tools


Marshall:

 

Unless you want to become a tool junkie I don't think you need a bit brace.  I've been dismantling pianos for nearly 40 years and I've never had one.  A good 3/8" or ½" socket wrench and an extension long enough to get the wrench handle over the rim of the piano is IMHO a better tool for that job.  You can get far more leverage on the screws & bolts than you can with a brace.  

 

dp

 

David M. Porritt, RPT

dporritt at smu.edu

 

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Marshall Gisondi
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 9:00 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] tools

 

Hi Everyone,
I have a piano dismantling job coming up, and I was told that I need a "carpenters brace" to remove plate screws.  Will this work for the bolts as well?    Does anyone here have one they can e-mail a picture of, and where could I find a carpenters brace?  Sears, Lowes, Home Depot don't sell one.  I could try our local hardware store, but I"m also trying to be price conscious.  thanks everyone
Marshall
Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician
Marshall's Piano Service
pianotune05 at hotmail.com
215-510-9400
www.phillytuner.com 
Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA









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