Clark, That would indeed be brutal. The "Safe-T" part of the Safe-T-Plainer is that if you keep your fingers vertical it would be difficult to cut them. I still treat it a potential maiming device. I am more careful now because last July I cut my middle finger on my left hand on my band saw. I was trying to cut some Delignate with a dull blade which burst my finger into the blade when it came out of the cut. The cut went half-way through the bone at the first knuckle and severed the extensor tendon. The surgeon stitched the tendon and inserted a pin through the middle of the bone almost to the second knuckle. This I had to wear for eight weeks. In the seventh week, though, the finger became inflamed with a bacterial infection that included the bone. We don't know why - it could have been carried into the bone with the original injury and sat dormant for seven weeks because of the poor blood supply to the bone or it could have been an opportunistic infection from the surgery. In any case it turned out to require another surgery and about five weeks of four or five different IV antibiotics. Eventually I had to administer this myself. The last one we used finally worked, and not too soon since my catheter vein gave out a couple of days before the end of the treatment and we were running out of antibiotics. Now I get to keep my finger though I have limited mobility at the injured knuckle and my second knuckle still hasn't limbered up completely - makes it a little hard to reach the high e string on the guitar. Great fun. Mark Story, RPT Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 4:52 AM Subject: Re: Key machine photo > At 03:05 PM 03/16/2000 -0800, you wrote: > > > > If anyone wants a copy of this photo that hasn't already requested it, > please > > try to download it from my FTP server. The server is IP address > > 146.187.103.25 You should be able to access this directory by typing into > the > > address box of your browser: <ftp://146.187.103.25>ftp://146.187.103.25 and > > select the file "keycutter3.jpg". Hope this works. I don't think my machine > > is on our Domain Name Server with a friendly name yet, but the numeric name > > should work. I'll try it myself tonight. > > > > Mark Story, RPT > > Eastern Washington University > > Cheney, Washington > > > How do you stabilize the key? > > I have a similar setup. A drill press vise holds the key and a 3/4" plunge > router > bit in the drill press planes the surface. I also have a clear plastic guard > which > shields the cutter. Open blades make me nervous. > > On the vise is an indexing stop for the front of the key and then a fence on > the > table stops the forward motion of the vise to insure identical routed lengths. > > Regards, > > > > Jon Page, piano technician > Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. > mailto:jonpage@mediaone.net > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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