hitch pin loop tool

[Elwood Doss]

I'd have to look it up, but someone gave one to me at one of the
conventions.  I think I wrote his name on it so I could thank him every
time I use it.  Now, these are for making coils on unwrapped strings.
How many of those do we use in a piano?  What about wrapped strings in
which all of them have hitch pin loops.  After the loop is made, the
string would have to be pulled through the tool and the hole is not
large enough to pull a wrapped string through.  If I'm replacing an
unwrapped string, 99% of the time I'll loop the string around the hitch
pin.  Am I missing something here?
Joy!
Elwood

Elwood Doss, Jr., M.M.E., RPT
Piano Technician/Technical Director
Department of Music
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The University of Tennessee at Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Jackson [mailto:scottwaynejackson at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 11:46 PM
To: Pianotech List
Subject: Re: hitch pin loop tool

hitch pin loop toolThere was a message from Greg Newell way back in
2003. It
can be found at:
https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/26/77/a6/75/attachmen
t.htm

And i believe the attached file is a picture of it, but don't ask me
where i
found it, cause i can't find it now!

Scott Jackson


----- Original Message ----- 
From: David Ilvedson
To: caut at ptg.org ; pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:34 AM
Subject: hitch pin loop tool


I have always duplicated hitchpin loops on single strings with my round
needle nose and a vice-grip.  It seems to me there was a simple tool
using a
dowel and a screw?   I'm talking about field work here.

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA 94044