[pianotech] palm nailers? (More coherent.)

[Euphonious Thumpe]

'sorry 'bout that last. It was (poorly) sent from an Ipad, with which I have no experience:  so I saw a  rechargeable-battery palm-nailer at Sears ( on sale at $59.95 ) and wondered if anyone had tried one of these for tuning pins. I imagine that it may be too light-duty, but the abscence of a hose makes it sound intriguing for this use.

Euphonious Thumpe
 

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 From: Euphonious Thumpe <lclgcnp at yahoo.com>
To: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>; "pianotech at ptg.org" <pianotech at ptg.org> 
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 12:56 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] palm nailers?
   
Perhaps just getting a cone-shaped grinding stone fora drill ( like I see at Lowe's) and making the tip of the nailer more concave would do? Has anyone battery poered type Sears now sells?   
 

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 From:  Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>; 
To:  <pianotech at ptg.org>; 
Subject:  Re: [pianotech] palm nailers? 
Sent:  Fri, May 11, 2012 2:47:19 AM 
  
On 5/10/2012 8:15 PM, Norman Cantrell wrote:
> Ron
> 
> What do you use for an interface between the palm nailer and the tuning
> pin. I have tried one direct to the pin and tend to get some flattening
> of the tops of the pins. I would like to eliminate that "feature" if at
> all possible.

I consider it a tradeoff for the cumulative pain of swinging my four pound single jack, and a fair trade at that. The flattened pin top doesn't affect function or hammer tip fit, so is purely cosmetic. Fitting a punch with a domed "socket" to the palm nailer should do it, but I really haven't thought it worth the trouble for the cosmetics.

Ron N
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