> VINTAGE PIANO WIRE STRETCHER TOOL > <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290191965890&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:GB:1123> Well, the price is reasonable, being appropriately considerably less than $300,000. But then I happen to own something easily as useful, better machined (downright pretty, I'd say), and considerably cheaper, as well as being more easily stored. That's it, down below. It's function, unlike the vintage wire stretching tool, is immediately discernible as both obvious and functional. The missing other half of the mold is also obvious, as is the fact that, given the other half of the mold, it could produce one complete plastic fork per injection cycle, presuming it were attached to the proper injection molding machinery. Utterly sans mystery other than how it came to be where I found it. The wire stretcher, on the other hand, is of considerably more dubious (less obvious) worth. I can't tell by looking at it just what it does, how it does it, why it should, to what benefit, and how many of them it takes to do what it supposedly does to enough wire to string an actual entire piano. Then there's the wrapped strings. Too many holes in the concept, and not enough in the artifact. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fork mold.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 32931 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071222/c3c279f2/attachment-0001.jpg
This PTG archive page provided courtesy of Moy Piano Service, LLC