tuning hammer tip

[Tom Dickson]

Hi, Claudia,

   All the comments so far about a tip wrench and lots of torque are on the 
money.

   If you can get more heads for your hammer, you might consider a few heads 
with different tips.  Then, you simply (and easily) unscrew the head/tip 
combination you have on, and screw on the new combo that you need.  I carry 
about 5 head/tip combos so that I have different sized tips as well as 
varying head angles, etc.  One of these uses a narrow-walled tip for spinets 
with pins jammed side by side.

   Something to consider!

Sincerely,
Tom Dickson,
Professional Piano Tuning and Repair,
Regina, SK, Canada


>From: Claudia Cimenti <claudia_cimenti@mail.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: tuning hammer tip
>Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:10:31 -0700
>
>Hi all,
>
>I had been looking at purchasing a nice tuning hammer for a while, and my 
>beloved husband said on my birthday I should go ahead and get one. 
>Excitedly, I got the Schaff 21C that comes with a #3 tip, and got the #2 
>tip while I was at it.
>
>The tips screw into the hammer head. But, blast, they come unscrewed when I 
>try to tune the piano.
>
>What am I doing wrong???
>
>Getting a one-piece head and tip would of course work, but I want to know 
>how to get this to work. I fully assume user error and not tool error here.
>
>Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
>Desperately,
>/Claudia
>
>
>-----
>Claudia Cimenti
>Northborough, Massachusetts
>claudia_cimenti@mail.com
>-----




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