Accu-Just Hitch Pins

[Greg Newell]

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Thanks Charles! Care to sell one of them?

Greg Newell




At 08:35 AM 6/26/2003, you wrote:

>Greg,
>
>I have two of the old factory gauges. I'll put together a photo later
>today for you. Unfortunately they are not available commercially.
>
>Charles Faulk
>On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:38:50 -0400 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
>writes:
> >
> > Does anyone have a picture of the Baldwin gauge or are we talking
> > about
> > that aluminum thingy with 3 feet?
> >
> >
> > Greg Newell
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 12:59 PM 6/25/2003, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > >>          Some things about this chart are unclear to me.  What do
> > the
> > >> numbers under the heading 'Bubble' represent?  Lines on the
> > gauge?
> > >
> > >Yes.
> > >
> > >
> > >>I don't have a Baldwin gauge but on the Lowell gauge (at least on
> > the old
> > >>one I have) I believe there are major lines and minor lines.  I
> > think
> > >>it's every fourth line that's a major line.  Does a bubble reading
> > of 1
> > >>on your chart correspond to 1 minor line on the Lowell gauge?
> > >
> > >The only Lowell gages I've seen are calibrated in 10' increments,
> > or 1/6=B0.
> > >Baldwin's gage is calibrated in 17' increments, I think, and since
> > the
> > >instructions were in Baldwinese, I sent a conversion chart with
> > degrees.
> > >If you happen to have a level with different calibration, read the
> > degrees
> > >per line from the Baldwin chart and translate to fit yours.
> > Baldwin's gage
> > >is 0.005" rise per inch per division, Lowell's is 0.003". This is
> > exactly
> > >why I have been saying since the first piano I strung that degrees
> > is the
> > >only sensible measure for stating down bearing, and everyone can
> > convert
> > >to their own personal scale from there. Call it a universal
> > exchange standard.
> > >
> > >Also, my experience is that any similarity found in actual Baldwin
> >
> > >production pianos, to results obtained from these official
> > instructions,
> > >is purely coincidental.
> > >
> > >Ron N
> > >
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> >
> > Greg Newell
> > Greg's piano Fort=E9
> > mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
> >
>
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Greg Newell
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