single hitch pins

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: June 27, 2003 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: single hitch pins


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Delwin D Fandrich <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: single hitch pins
>
>
> >
> > The difficulty was making the individual loops, making them look
> good and
> > keeping them from unwrapping. Setting bearing was uneventful.
> >
> > Del

Well, one and a half anyway. And a bit of pain to the fingers.

When I substitute vertical hitches for the originals I tend to keep the
string quite low--no more than 5 mm off the plate surface. In this case I
left the tails about 7 or 8 mm long and put a slight kink in them about 2
or 3 mm from the end so I would have a nicely rounded surface resting
against the plate. If the backscale had been just a bit longer I'd not have
bothered. I went looking for a picture but either didn't take one or its
current location is eluding me.

Del