Sciortino Coil Maker

[David ilvedson]

> From:          PNOTNR <PNOTNR@aol.com>
> Date:          Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:51:00 EDT
> To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject:       Re: Sciortino Coil Maker
> Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org

That would be a curious advantage to tout in the Sciortino 
literature as I know of no one who makes a 90 degree bend in the 
wire before he/she installs it.  My tuning hammer automatically 
makes a becket with or without the Sciortino tool.  What the 
tool does do is make the becket and coil pretty easy without the 
usual discomfort to the fingers of holding the wire against the 
pin while turning the pin.  I did use the tool at one time (I 
lost a part) but didn't always get a perfect coil.  It seems 
that sometimes it coiled on top of tuning pin hole.  I'm sure I 
had it set incorrectly and someone will explain what the problem 
was.  





> In a message dated 98-04-28 23:09:33 EDT, you write:
> 
> << 
>  I am guessing Ralph means you don't need to push the string out 
>  a little on the opposite side of the pin?  I don't anyway but 
>  that is all I could figure.  "Becket" is the piece of the wire 
>  that goes into the pin.  Can't do without it I'm afraid no 
>  matter what Sciotino might say.  
>   >>
> 
> 
> My take on the instructions for the coil maker is that one does not need to
> create a 90 degree bend in the wire, or becket, before proceeding to use the
> tool,  since the proper use of the tool is going to create the becket as the
> part of the wire located at the hole in the tuning pin rotates away from the
> the set screw fulcrum.
> 
> Gordon Large, RPT
> 
> 
> 
David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA
ilvey@a.crl.com