Hi, Jeff and Colleagues - When I arrived at my post at SUNY Fredonia years ago, there was no hoisting arrangement. I contacted the phys plant's 'head carpenter' about my needs. Within a couple days he and a crew arrived. They drilled a hole in the concrete floor of the clarinet professor's studio immediately over my shop space. Then they installed a heavy duty eye bolt at the center of my shop ceiling, with the nut (not the clarinet guy!) upstairs in the studio. That was "buttered over" with concrete patch and the carpet laid back over it. This all happened between semesters and the clarinet prof never even knew about it! He and I became friends and eventually talked about it. He said he wondered what that strange noise was coming from his floor every once in a while. I confessed it was my chainfall, and he was quite OK with it. Hoisted many plates over the years, and even whole concert grands. ~ Tom McNeil ~ Vermont Piano Restorations VermontPiano.com 346 Camp Street Barre, VT 05641 (802) 476-7072 In a message dated 8/14/2008 3:22:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Jfarris at mail.utexas.edu writes: Hey list, One more post about restringing with existing pins. We had a lot of good points brought up last time. I like Jon Page’s beckett tool, for instance. This time I’m curious if anyone has pulled the plate, without a hoist, while leaving the existing tuning pins in place. We do not have means to mount anything like a wench or whatever to pull plates. We normally have our movers show up with enough manpower to simply lift them out, and set them back in place. But we’ve never attempted using the existing pins. It happens to be a “D” . I’m concerned about the angle of the pins vs. the nosebolts. And holding all that weight long enough to deal with any “problems” that pop up. Any thoughts on this? Has anyone ever done it? Jeff Farris Piano Technician School of Music UT Austin _jfarris at mail.utexas.edu_ (mip://021bcaf8/jfarris@mail.utexas.edu) 512-471-0158 **************Looking for a car that's sporty, fun and fits in your budget? Read reviews on AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/cars-Volkswagen-Jetta-2009/expert-review?ncid=aolaut00030000000007 ) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080815/a8505b21/attachment.html
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