Removing tuning pins with the Milwaukee Drill

[Greg Newell]

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I may not have mentioned before that while it does only take me about 5=20
minutes to get all the pins out that is after the becket was broken and the=
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string removed. I use an impact wrench and the pins come out quite warm=20
indeed but I have absolutely no intention of saving the old block. My wife=
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is about Tracey's size and I'm quite sure would say that she couldn't do it=
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if faced with only the Milwaukee drill. With the pneumatic impact wrench=20
the kick is just not that great.

Greg



At 08:08 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote:
>Tracey, our 110 lb., 5' 4" shop person, pulls the whole set in about 15 to=
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>20 minutes (including a break to rest her arms) with our trusty old=20
>Milwaukee. The pin holes show no visible damage. There is no smoke. And=20
>the pins, while suitably warm, are not too hot to pick up.
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>We may even give her a break and get her an impact wrench.
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>(Of course, we always replace the pinblocks anyway so the condition of the=
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>original block really doesn't matter.)
>
>Del
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>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On=20
>Behalf Of Ross White
>Sent: September 08, 2005 4:37 PM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: Re: Removing tuning pins with the Milwaukee Drill
>
>If you really spun them out, they would be too hot to touch.  There might=
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>also be wisps of smoke.  If the old pins were warm but not hot, perhaps=20
>they were loose.  Did any wood stick to the old pins; sometimes little=20
>bits of wood will stick to the pins.  Boy Scouts start fires by this kind=
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>of procedure, wood on wood.  Friction produces heat.  How long does it=20
>take you to remove a set of pins with a Milwaukee drill.  Takes me a=20
>couple of hours to do it by hand; and, it's not that hard.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:phil@philbondi.com>Phil Bondi
>To: <mailto:pianotech@ptg.org>Pianotech
>Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 4:19 PM
>Subject: Re: Removing tuning pins with the Milwaukee Drill
>
>
>
>Ross White wrote:
>
> > If you spin tuning pins out, you're going to scorch the holes in the
> > block.  You don't want that.
>
>Ross, can you offer more explanation on this? The reason I ask is
>because I just got done 'spinning' , with a hi torque-lo RPM Milwaukee
>drill, the treble section of a 100 year old S&S 0, and the pins were
>warm to the touch..not hot.
>
>I don't know for sure, but my gut tells me that I did not scorch the
>holes. I would be interested to hear more about your personal experience
>with this..or from anyone else for that matter since I have the rest of
>the block to do yet.
>
>-Phil Bondi(Fl)
>
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Greg Newell
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