I use the coupler,also, and it works very well.When i was young and dumb,BC-{before the coupler},I had about a dozen of Hammer shanks pre- cut in different lenght from 1.5"" in 1/8" increments.Hammer shanks are easy to slip under the lever and it gives very accurate reading...When appropriate lenght of shank is found-then it is very easy to cut the dowel and do the rest....... Regarding drilling-enlarging the pitman hole-I use UNIBIT Drill to enlarge the hole to 1" in dia...I will have this pitman retrofit kit in my class,if interested to see it-just stop by Isaac Sadigursky..... On Jun 11, 2008, at 7:36 PM, Jude Reveley/Absolute Piano wrote: > Variation on a theme... > > My pitman gage is a coupler nut threaded onto a dowel with the > punchings glued on each end. I'll see if I can snap a picture. You > want to be able to easily adjust it under the damper tray without > the lower portion spinning along. > > Jude Reveley, RPT > Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC > Lowell, Massachusetts > (978) 323-4545 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080611/0693d598/attachment.html
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