Sorting New Tuning Pins

[G GRAVINA]

Gordon,

That's what I'm saying!  I usually make 3 or 4 groups of pins, based on 
slight thickness differences.  I use the thicker ones in the bass, the next 
group in the tenor, etc.  Try it.  Let me know how you make out.

Jerry Gravina, RPT
Babylon, NY

At 10:08 AM 08/06/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Jerry Gravina and list.  Jerry, you say "sort new pins using a
>micrometer and put the fat ones in the bass".  Are you saying that in
>a box of new pins, say 4/0, that there are pins that are slightly
>larger even though they are all supposed to be the same size.  I have
>a box, unopened, of new 4/0 pins to be installed, first time for me,
>and I hadn't read or heard that there may be "fat one".  Thanks for
>the alert.  Regards, Gordon Holley, Goshen, Indiana