The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Put it off for a looooooooooooooooooong time <G>
Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited


>
> This brings up another question, or maybe the same one. I've tried all
> sorts of things when de-stringing. I've cut them at the counter bearing
and
> pulled them straight up off of the pins (lots of sparks and shrapnel and
> too hard on the wrists), clipped the beckets with a hollow punch (the
loose
> pieces are still in the pin and eternally resist me lifting the coil off
of
> the pin), cut the string at the coil and backed the pins coil and all out
> with the drill (this isn't bad), spun the pins out without cutting
> anything, depending on the becket to break by itself (more sparks,
> occasional terrifying and painful surprises [not recommended]), cut the
> wire somewhere between becket and agraffe and pried the becket and coil
off
> with the modified screwdriver (which is what I seem to come back to).
>
> I know the preferred method is to have a sacrificial shop slave do it, but
> what do the rest of you do when you have to do your own work?
> Ron N
>
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