Ditto on the needle nose Vise grips. Mine got ground down a little bit so they would fit better in the wippen. No chance of splitting it now. Nice tip on the toothpick ... thanks. -- JF On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ryan Sowers <tunerryan at gmail.com> wrote: > I use a pair of needle nose Vice grips. You can set the width of the jaws > just slightly bigger than the center pin so you won't be in danger of > scuffing it up with the rough surface of the pliers. The compound leverage > helps too! I've done this job quite a few times right in the piano. I figure > about 3 hours total to do a whole set of plastic elbows. One important > detail is to properly prepare the elbows. I shove a round toothpick in the > bushing to open it up more and to trim the felt away from the slotted > opening with a fresh razor blade. They will pop on easier, and you will have > less problem with sluggishness. A stitch in time, saves nine! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100927/93c5b2f3/attachment.htm>
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