Center Pin

[Shawn Brock]

Its a debatable subject I reckon.  When I first started that's how I performed the task.  Just starting the pin with my fingers, and pushing it through with the center pinning tool.  At some point someone harped about how the oil from your skin could get on the pin and possibly cause malfunction in the future.  This fellow always pinned with a small set of vise-grips.  He would cut off both ends of the pin (the pointed side and the side that was bird by the tool).  I did things that way for a while, but now I'm back to the good old starting the pin with your fingers.  Maybe it will cause undesired things to happen in the future, but it has not seemed to make a difference yet for me.  I knocked out a few bushings when I tried using the vise-grips thing, that's another reason I switched back to my old way.

Shawn Brock, RPT
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Monroe 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 7:59 PM
  Subject: Re: Center Pin


  Is this a trick question??

  Thumb and forefinger, pinky held aloft as is good and proper?
  I must be missing something if the implication is that there is a tool needed here.  I just start them with my fingers and then press in with the center pinning tool.

  William R. Monroe


   
    What is the best way to hold a center pin while you get it started to push it through the hole?

    Matthew
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