Tuning Pins

[Horace Greeley]

Clark, et al,

At 04:39 AM 11/12/99 -0200, you wrote:

>Maybe a screw maker could turn normal pins down, maybe a screw maker could
sell
>new tapered pins - I'd buy them. Otherwise, I'll be recycling the sets I
>replace.

While I was still working on a lot of older instruments, getting things
like this was such a
problem that I simply got a surplus CNC endmill.  The computer controller
on the endmill
made duplicating even the most obnoxiously oddball thread/taper possible,
but it was
much cheaper to buy and learn how to use it than it was to pay a machinist
to make 
things.

HHHmmmmmmm - with so many of you all working on these antedeluvian instruments,
maybe I should scrape the cosmolene off the endmill...

Cheers.

Horace



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