Anything I can do to ward off the curse...well, I guess I can handle one curse... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org; caut at ptg.org Received: 3/19/2010 9:57:59 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] [CAUT] Shoe peg >paul bruesch wrote: >> Novice question here... >> >> I've heard quite a bit about shoe pegs here on pianotech... is a shoe >> peg long grain or end grain? I'm guessing long grain because toothpicks >> or hammershanks are much easier to get, so there must(?) be a reason to >> carry "one more thing". >Long grain. >Shoe pegs, veneer, leather, paper towels, toothpick or >cardboard, all work. All require glue of some sort. Just >sticking something in the hole and cranking in the screw will >justifiably earn you the "boils on the butt" curse from the >next tech who has to dig out the splinters and try to come up >with a workable recovery. >Been there, and been there, and been there... >Ron N
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