[pianotech] Premium service

[paul bruesch]

There's quite a bit about this in recent (past couple years) archives. The
Metrovac, I think it is (available on Amazon, as well as other places) is a
popular favorite.

Personally, I use a little, very compact Shark (not sure of the model.) It's
great for small jobs (lots of suction), but it doesn't have sufficient
capacity for much dust/dirt/turds.

Paul Bruesch
Stillwater, MN

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote:

> 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.
>
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> Matthew Todd, Piano Technician
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>
> --- 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<http://us.mc838.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=davidlovepianos@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
>
>
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