bore brushes

[David Ilvedson]

Hey, Francisco...consider a digital camera.   It helps get your point across without the language getting in the way.

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: afinador <afinador at ig.com.br>
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Received: 6/25/2006 6:19:35 PM
Subject: bore brushes


> I sincerely am thankful all that had come to help with the question of 
>tuning pins me for the Bechstein. Not wise person who had attendance of as 
>many experienced colleagues soon that not even they know me.  I find that it 
>can have difficulty to express me because of the language (my message I 
>translate of google and repair the terms technician).  To really substitute 
>pinblock could not be the solution a time that it is very good and the 
>problem if the iron plate finds in the length of tuning pins therefore has 
>7mm and it does not have bushings.   To install bushings in the iron plate 
>will not be possible because the diameter of the punctures is of only 8mm 
>and at the beginning of the medium the space well is pressed to become a 
>bigger puncture .I thought and I took the following decision not usual:  If 
>necessary that it has greater length of contact of tuning pins with pinblock 
>I go to roll only 2 aneis of ropes in tunings pins and driving 3mm of height 
>in relation to the iron plate. They will be only with 20mm of total height. 
>I will on average gain 7mm in the sharps and 5mm in the serious ones of 
>contact with pinblock.  To compensate the tension, I will increase in 2mm 
>coupon stubs of I lean soon of strings above of agraffes (not to force the 
>same ones).  A piano technician that to look at the piano it goes to scare 
>itself when seeing, but if to know of the problem will approve the solution. 
> It will be that somebody disagrees?  Francisco Motta Techniciam Piano in 
>Belo Horizonte - Brazil