problem learning how to use an insta coiler

[pianotune05]

Hi Mark,
So what I'm visualizing is this. Rather than the two pices meetng at the 
color first, they should be seperated then as I turn the coil they should 
meet and stop turning?
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Schecter" <schecter at pacbell.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: problem learning how to use an insta coiler


> Hi, all.
>
> I think there's a bit of confusion here. As you turn the pin clockwise to 
> make the coil, the coil winds down the pin, from the becket, toward the 
> plate or pinblock. The coiler keeps the coil from spiraling down to the 
> plate or pinblock, or from crossing up and over coils that are already on 
> the pin, but it does _not_ lift up the windings above each loop.
>
> You have to start with the tool wound _out_, that is to say, _up_, that is 
> to say, _counterclockwise_. The thread on the tool causes the guide slot 
> on the tool to guide the wire down the pin at the rate of one 
> wire-diameter per clockwise revolution, no more and no less.
>
> It sounds like you've been starting with the tool at the end of its 
> travel, instead of at the beginning. No wonder it's hard to turn. Does 
> that help?
>
> -Mark Schecter
>
>
> Andrew and Rebeca Anderson wrote:
>> As you wind the hook hole is lifted up continuing the winding above each 
>> loop.  When you wind, you should be winding the tuning pin down into the 
>> block and the reverse thread on the coiler should be lifting the coiler. 
>> If the coiler is already fully lifted you will not be able to turn it any 
>> more which is why you rewind it to the starting position each time before 
>> starting.