The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited

[David Love]

Greg:

After you cut the becket, just back the pin out with a heavy duty reverse
drill and lift the pin out from the coil.  Don't try and pull the coil over
the pin.

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
> To: <phil@philbondi.com>; Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 7/27/2003 7:05:24 PM
> Subject: RE: The Right Tool for the Right Job Revisited
>
>
> Yes, This works for me as well but the trouble I have is when the small 
> piece of becket string creeps out of the hole just enough to prevent the 
> coil from slipping off over the pin. ARRGGGGHH!!! Then I pay my kid to 
> pluck them all out with either a magnate or needle nose pliers or 
> something. Then I can pull them off easily, cut the wire where needed to 
> pull through the agraffes and I'm home free! Still would like to find
some 
> way to avoid problems with that 1/4" long piece of string though.
> BTW, if it helps anyone else, I don't pay my kids an allowance. Instead I 
> pay them for their labor, of which there is plenty if they choose to do
it, 
> and it is therefore a tax deduction. I pay them well enough for them to
buy 
> a great deal of their own needs like clothing and school supplies and
such. 
> Of course dad kicks in what they don't have money for and I assure that 
> they have some spending money of their own too. This is just a paper
trail 
> to help the ever present tax burden we all suffer. I once heard, "It's
not 
> how much you make, but rather, how much you get to KEEP!"  FWIW
>
> Greg Newell
>
>
> At 02:06 PM 7/27/2003, you wrote:
>
> >David..if I may:
> >
> > > I take the tension down
> >
> >..a quarter turn..if that.
> >
> > >use a becket breaker to shear off
> > > the becket, and then back the pins out through the coil.  Cut
> > > the wire at the agraffes to remove the tenor and bass and
> > > slip the treble wire through the capo bar.
> > > It goes pretty quickly with not popping wire or stress on the
> > > wrists.
> > >
> >This is my method with one exception:
> >
> >I like padding down the tail end of the case with 1.5" pipe insulation
> >along the top and moving blankets on the inside..and NOT let the tension
> >down on the bass strings...use the becket breaker with full tension on
> >the bass wire and watch them fly.
> >
> >..it's fun!
> >
> >Phil Bondi(FL)
> >phil@philbondi.com
> >
> >
> >
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> Greg Newell
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