Since there seems to be some interest in the topic of restringing with accujust pins, I thought I'd share the tools I have made for the purpose: one to tap down, one to tap up, and a base for an angle gauge. Tap down is a bolt, with a hole drilled out the bottom. It's a 3/8" bolt, since I didn't have a 7/16 or a 1/2 that was long enough to use comfortably. Seems like there is still enough metal to work fine, though. Tap up is a slide hammer made from an old tuning hammer shank, that the threads had given way on. I would have used a bolt or a door hinge pin, but I didn't have the right bolt, and the hinge pin I had was too well tempered to drill. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the shank, filled a flat surface on on side, sawed a couple kerfs about 1/8" from the bottom with a hack saw, close to one another (and then pried the little bit of metal left between the kerfs back and forth until it broke). Then I used the hack saw to make two cuts in line with the shank to create a vertical slot, and finished off the slot with a file. I re-tapped the threaded end of the shank for a nut, and added a washer. A deep, 1/2" drive socket makes a reasonable hammer to slide on the shank. My base for the Wixey gauge is a hybrid of the two in the March Journal. I found that screws on a wood base weren't as stable for the magnets as a solid base, so I epoxied a strip of metal on my square of wood. The feet that sit on the string are pairs of wood screws, #5 or #6 x about 1", head cut off, then a groove filed. Not all that much investment of time making tools, and I think it will make the job go faster than tapping down with a screwdriver blade and prying up with something or other. I really like the Wixey gauge - so much better than any bubble devise I have used. I'll actually do the job in June after classes are out, but I have done a bit of initial experimenting, and it seems pretty straightforward. P5040001.JPG P5040002.JPG P5040003.JPG Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/504c77f9/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P5040001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 19002 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/504c77f9/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P5040002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 21548 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/504c77f9/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: P5040003.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 20057 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090505/504c77f9/attachment-0005.jpg>
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