Speaking of vacuums, I am curious as to what type of vacuum everyone uses. I have a 6 gal. shop vac that I bought at Home Depot, but it is not very space saving, even though it is one of the smallest. So, I do not keep it in my vehicle. When a customer requests a cleaning over the phone, I make sure I put the shop vac in my vehicle. However, I would like to find a vac that isn't bulky that I can keep inside my car, without taking up too much space. TODD PIANO WORKS Matthew Todd, Piano Technician (979) 248-9578 http://www.toddpianoworks.com --- On Thu, 3/11/10, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote: From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> Subject: Re: [pianotech] Premium service To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:09 AM A vacuum and a dry paint brush cleans the pin area in a couple of minutes. An understring sweeper in a few more. That’s what I was talking about. If you have to pull the action and clean the action cavity what does that take, 3-4 more minutes. I suppose if you take a toothbrush to everything I could probably take three hours but it’s not necessary to get the dust out. I don’t think I’ve ever polished a set of pedals as part of a cleaning job. You have to draw the line somewhere. I usually walk to the car, not crawl. All this reminds me of my visit to the Charles Walter factory a couple of years ago and how we all talk about how much time things take. When I was there I saw this woman pin a bridge in about 15 minutes. She picked up three pins at a time, set them right into the holes, bang, bang, bang with a hammer and they were perfect. She probably got paid 20% of what I charge per hour and did the job in about 20% of the time. I won’t even tell you about the stringer who could string an entire piano in about 90 minutes. The message I took with me, quit complaining and pick up the pace. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Formsma Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:30 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Premium service On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:12 PM, David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> wrote: Honestly,I'm shocked that people are talking about spending 30 - 40 minutes or more cleaning. It takes about 5. Maybe you should define "cleaning." I guarantee you that you can't dust and clean the SB underneath all the strings, bridges, hitch pins and understring felt there, tuning pin area, action cavity, action, and polish all three pedals in 5 minutes. It takes about 5 minutes to walk out to the car to get the vacuum cleaner and find a nearby plug. So whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis? :-) -- JF -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100311/16f537eb/attachment.htm>
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