Tuning pins more longs

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Francisco,
Have the old pins been thrown away?
If not there is a way to reuse them.
Even if there is a build up of rust on the pins.
Joe Goss RPT
Mother Goose Tools
imatunr at srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "afinador" <afinador at ig.com.br>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:05 PM
Subject: Tuning pins more longs


> I make restorations of piano in Belo Horizonte MG - Brazil. To five years
> that we have used only the Denro mark for tuning pins. I am ahead of a
> problem: He is in the phase of re-stringing old uprigth Bechstein. This
> model is not very common in Brazil therefore its pinblock is closed (for
the
> iron plate) and does not possess bushings in tuning pins. The plate of
iron
> in pinblock has 7mm of thickness and tuning pins that I removed of there
had
> 75mm of length.  Then. No American or German suppliment company who knows
> offers tuning pins longers today (6/0 or 7/0 x 2-3/4).  Will not be
possible
> to substitute pinblock for a budgetary question (and nor she would
advance).
>  I promise a statue in the door of our workshop who to help me to find
> tuning pins 6/0 or 7/0 longer than 2-1/2.  Much thankful
> Francisco Motta
> afinador at ig.com.br
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