pins and needles

[David Love]

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Pins are not the same as needles.  Neither as sharp nor as hard.  I =
generally use #6 sharps (there are different types of needles) and I get =
them from the supply houses.  There might be cheaper places to get them =
but I don't really go through that many to worry about it. =20

David Love
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  From: Wimblees@AOL.COM=20
  To: Pianotech@ptg.org=20
  Sent: October 23, 2001 4:55 PM
  Subject: pins and needles


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  Now that I am taking care of university pianos, I am doing a lot more =
voicing.  More voicing means more needles. So I went to the local fabric =
store looking for=20
  #17 needles, which is what I have been told is the right size for =
voicing. I found some, but they wanted $2.50 for 12 needles. As I was =
looking around, I found a box of 100 #17 straight pins for the same =
amount of money. Being the cheap skate that I am, it was a no brainer to =
pick the box of pins over the dozen needles.=20

  But now I might have thrown away $2.50. (I took fifteen minutes to cut =
the heads off all of them, so I can't even give them to my wife to use =
in her sewing kit.) It seems that #17 pins are not the same thing as #17 =
needles. The first time I used the pins, they bent when I tried pushing =
them into the hammer felt. At first I thought I was doing something =
wrong, but every time I put in new pins, they would bend with just one =
or two jabs.=20

  Tomorrow I'll go back and buy the needles. So much for saving a few =
bucks. Any one with the know how why the pins bent so easily? I thought =
#17 is #17, like wire, regardless of whether it is a pin or a needle. =
But I guess there must be something more to it than that.=20

  Wim=20

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