Sounds right. A good fit of the tip is important but to me it's not how tight it is--and it can be too tight. It's whether it matches the slope of the pin top. I don't want the tip to be catching more at the top of the pin than the bottom as it increase the amount the pin is torqued and makes stable tuning more difficult. You can feel this when you place the hammer on the pin and it has a fair amount of play at the bottom of the pin but not at the top. There should be equal play overall. The tip should come off the pin easily, but not too much. Recently I purchased a titanium Faulk hammer(wow is it light--I already own a Bowman hammer), I prefer the ball type hammers as it's easier on the wrist. At the suggestion of a colleague I purchased a couple of Watanabe tips of various sizes and they seem to "fit" very well. I prefer the hammer set up at 10 degrees (rather than 5 or 15). It's hard to find 10 degree head however. Schaff does have a few left over from the old APSCO stuff. I prefer to move the pin from an angle as close to perpendicular to the pin as I can get without having clearance problems. Five degrees creates too many clearance problems and 15 degrees is more than you need. David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ken Streetman Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 1:59 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: tuning tips has anyone read this http://www.pianotuningtools.net/ttips.html it is about tuning tips and some of the problems we seem to have with them would like to here other comments about this. Ken _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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