Hi David, How are you? Could you please enlighten me? what is an Air Hammer? Also, are the pins removed and replaced for a restringing or just backed out three turns? Thanks, Aart Markenstein Aart in America Piano Service Hoboken, NJ On Apr 29, 2005, at 10:30 AM, David Vanderhoofven wrote: > Hi Terry, > > I have used an air hammer on the past 3 or 4 jobs! Works great! > However, the last two jobs ended up not as good as if I had used a > sledge hammer and tuning pin punch. The end result was loose tuning > pins in a new block, and I think that the loose tuning pins were the > result of the air hammer. It is very easy to put a tuning pin in at > an angle and damage the interior of the hole in the pinblock. > > Be careful to put the tuning pin in the hole at the correct angle, or > beware of the possibility of loose tuning pins later. > > David Vanderhoofven > Joplin, MO > > At 06:54 AM 4/29/2005, you wrote: >> Air hammer. http://www.danairinc.com/palmnailer.html Only way to >> go. >> >> Terry Farrell > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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