Tuning Pin Hole Reamers

[Terry Beckingham]

Vlad,

Thanks for your reply. I am in more of a quandary now. I take it that the
brass brush cleans off any glazin that may be in the holes. I'll check to
see if the sporting goods shop in our little town carries gun brushes. They
do sell hunting rifles.

Cheers

Terry Beckingham
Associat Member

At 04:58 AM 6/11/99 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 6/10/1999 11:07:24 PM Mexico Standard Time, bkidd@tilc.com 
>writes:
>
><< Subj:	 Re: Tuning Pin Hole Reamers >>
>Hi there!
>I would not use them at all.  I restrung about 50 or 60 pianos in my 
>experience,
>and I've tried using reamers and I never liked it, because you cannot get 
>equal
>torque with it.  I would recommend using brass gun brushes (caliber #7) with 
>the
>drill, don't use plastic brushes.
>But if you still gonna use reamers, turn it by hand about 2-3 turns, and about
>18 holes (6 unisons) at a time.  Don't get reamers to hot, because you can
>damage pin block.
>    
>               I hope it helps.
>                Vlad from portland OR.
> 
>