Late-night correction to Re: hitch pin loop tool

[Horace Greeley]

Allan,

Did you bring enough to share?...

Cheers!

Horace



At 11:03 PM 2/11/2008, you wrote:
>Very good referral, but the math stickler in me must point out that 
>the transverse pin is described in the original article as being 
>tangentially placed and this is not correct. If it were a tangent, 
>it would be wholly (wholely? wooley? holy?) outside the dowel and 
>only touching it in one little itty-bitty (yes, those are the 
>correct scientific terms) spot. The pin actually forms a secant--the 
>first dictionary definition of which is "a straight line 
>intersecting a curve at two or more points", although it may be 
>said, ha ha, that when the aforementioned curve is, in fact, any arc 
>part (not unlike the Kalahari termite-eating aard vark or the common 
>expression in the poorer neighborhoods of Hellstinky, to wit, 
>"digging this ditch makes me tired, Ollie, it shur is ard vark") but 
>I digress, as is my want (or need) and, at the risk of repeating 
>myself in any sort of repetitious, redundant, reiterative, echoing 
>sort of over and over again way, <insert breath here> I restate once 
>or twice more that when the afiveorsixmentioned curve is any arc 
>part of a circle, there can be neither a number greater than nor 
>fewer than exactly two (2) intersections, more or less. This is sort 
>of true even if one of the said common loci (a rare bird, indeed), 
>hereinafter called the "intersection" has a posted stop sine and the 
>other has a lightly tan gent waving his little bobby baton at your 
>recalcitrant, denser-than-a-neutron-star noggin and requesting that 
>you sine the summons he hands you and that your spouse must, 
>likewise (or dislikewise, more likely; or perhaps more dislikely, or 
>even less likely, "unlikely") cosine the dang thing, for heaven's 
>sake so you can get on with your pitiful life--all for the patently 
>egregious crime of "failing to yield." Failing to yield, that is, 
>the appropriate and traditional under-the-table remuneration into 
>the greasy outstretched palm of said upright, uptight, upstanding 
>(and downright lying) constable, or con-unstable, as it were (and 
>still am).Glad I was able to enlighten you all and straighten this 
>hole thing out and I sincerely apologize for doing so. I suggest you 
>not bother reading this message at all, or have someone read it to 
>you, perhaps in German, it'll make a lot more sense maybe. Or have 
>them read it in Germany, while you stay here in the good old "You-Us 
>of Eh?" soaking your gluttonous maximum in a pink bubbly bath set up 
>in your rump room. Won't that be jolly fun, eh what?Baa Hamburg! 
>(Ewe said it.) Alan BarnardTrickonometry Professor in Salem, MOAnd 
>the frightening thing is, he is stone cold sober and considered 
>mildly sane by some very questionable folks.----- Original message 
>----------------------------------------From: "Scott Jackson"  To: 
>"Pianotech List"  Received: 2/11/2008 11:45:33 PMSubject: 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/attachment.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 
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