Hello Ed. The advice on the coil socket empact device is good, I believe that is the one that Joe Goss has. He's going to call me back yet this afternoon, he was tied up when I called to order one. I've got two of the the one piece lever coil lifter and yes it can be a real pisser trying to get in between pins. Mine are both bent up at the handle grip area. Works best when your restring from the get- go. The modification on the vice-grip is understandable and I'll also do that. Ya, I know, "do I really want to do this"?. I at least will tell the piano owners, (friends) what is involved. Both husband and wife are very particular about this old piano, "being a kind of a no namer", like not a Yamaha or Steinway, and they could afford one. But it was the piano that the kids took lessons on years back and two of the boys were music majors and one is a band director in a local high school. So it's probably more of just wanting it to be correct, even after 20 years. We'll see come next May when I tune it again and let them bring up the subject. Thanks again Ed. Regards, Gordon Holley On 4 Nov 2003 at 11:56, A440A@aol.com wrote: > Gordon writes: > << I've not tried to level coils 20 years after the > piano was restrung. How is it done?. >> > > Greetings, > It depends on the problem. Loose beckets are ugly, irregular coils, too. > If you will be needing to lift the coils to get them tight, then the impact > hammer type, with small coil socket on the end, is the way to go. If you are > going to try to lever them up with the one piece coil lifter, you may find > quite a few that are not only hard to reach, but also, hard to lift without really > prying them up and risking plate chips,etc. > After this, tap the top with a setting tool, (a coil cutter), to level > them. > I like to squeeze beckets in with a small pair of vise-grips. If you want > to dedicate them, use a small grinder to grind concave faces on the jaws, it > helps speed up the job. I like to squeeze them in, then give a slight twist in > the direction of the coil to help relieve slack around the pin. Even on a > year-old stringing job, this will drop the pitch anywhere from 3 to 10 cents! > I would first ask myself, "Why am I doing this"? String spacing is a > functional thing, leveling coils on a twenty year old rebuild,though? Idunno. > Regards, > > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <A HREF="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/399/six_degrees_of_tonality.html"> > MP3.com: Six Degrees of Tonality</A> > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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