Tracking Shop Hours

[Jeannie Grassi]

Tom, and everyone,
Actually, Ted just had his official retirement celebration from the Banff
Centre this summer and is no longer there.  However he is still enjoying
living in Banff.  His new email address is:  esambell@telusplanet.net

jeannie

Jeannie Grassi, RPT
Associate Editor, Piano Techncians Journal
mailto:jgrassi@silverlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org]On Behalf
Of Tom Dickson
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:18 PM
To: pianotech@ptg.org
Subject: Re: Tracking Shop Hours


Hi, Terry!

   In case you are interested, the Ted ..... to which you refer is Ted
Sambell.  He works in the Banff Centre, which is in Alberta, Canada.  His
email is ted_sambell@banffcentre.ab.ca .  If he is available, he may wish to
give you some ideas on times, etc.

Sincerely,
Tom Dickson,
Regina, SK, Canada



>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Tracking Shop Hours
>Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:32:24 -0400
>
>This post follows up my post on old upright rebuilding. Does anyone have
>any
>great tried-and-true methods for tracking shop hours - hours spent on
>individual projects - and better yet, broken down into specific tasks. I am
>hopelessly (or nearly so) disorganized, and I would rather try to cast a
>new
>plate in my shop that try to track my hours. How do you organized folks out
>there do it? I remember the Journal cover from a-ways back with Ted ......
>(the wonderful dude from England) on the cover standing in front of his
>super-neat tool storage in his shop (he can likely tell you it took him
>14.7
>hours be build that shelving) - so I know you organized techs exist - you
>can't hide.
>
>It's horrible. I have rebuild a couple pianos and actions, but I still
>don't
>know how long it takes to rebuild a piano or an action (or at least not a
>accurately as I would like). My troubles may be compounded by the fact that
>I have my shop structure attached to the back of my garage at home. It is
>common for me to walk by, go into the shop, and do 15 minutes of work (glue
>on 3 damper felts, glue on a keytop, file 6 hammers, turn 12 capstans,
>level
>4 keys, etc.), and go back to cooking dinner or scolding the dog.
>
>Any input??? Thanks.
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>


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