Great tool -- from Radio Shack

[Tom Driscoll]

Jesse,
    Welcome. 
    Do you have a part # for the radio shack tool?
    FWIW , I'll bet the  capstan tool you refer to as too thick is from Schaff.
    The yamaha tool and the pianotek tool  work great.
    More and more the tools from our big house in Chicago  need to be either modified or returned.
Sorry to say it but I'm working with a new tech with new tools and have first hand experience.-- I.E. damper regulating tool that won't fit over a standard damper wire.
    End of rant and again Jesse ,
    Welcome.
    Tom Driscoll RPT
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  From: PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:06 AM
  Subject: Great tool -- from Radio Shack


  A non-piano tool that I use in my piano work is a long, pointy steel probe that comes in a set of 4 different shaped probes. The handle is 3.5 inches long and hexagon shaped if you look at it from the end. The probe part of it is also 3.5 inches long, about 1/8" in thickness (diameter) and it comes to a sharp point at the end. 
  I find it great for adjusting dowel-type capstans, especially in older pianos where, if you don't get your tool all the way through the hole, the dowel might break in half as you turn it. The pointy end is much thinner and sharper than the standard capstan regulating tools and will go all the way through the dowel hole, with virtually no chance of having the dowel crack. I use it also in place of an awl, to make that tiny glue-release hole when re-gluing an upright hammer. It's thinner and pointier than any awl, and easily does the job.
      
  Jesse Gitnik   
  Flushing, NY
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