On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:45 AM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote: > Dave writes: > << No two technicians agree if this is a valid way to pin. :-) >> > > Oh, but I do! I have been pinning this way for a long time. It is > fast, > consistant, and matches the friction to the load. It takes about 90 > minutes > to repin a complete hammer line and for concert work, is a no-brainer. > I am tuning a piano this a.m. that I repinned in 1983. I did it in the > winter, and pinned the whole hammerline to swing 6 times, (I keep records > on > the school's repair work). It has been used a lot over the decades. Last > week, > I found that 90% of the hammerflanges are still between 6 and 7 swings. > Two > or three were loose as all get out, and one was tight. > Consistancy is where its at in pinning. Pinning by swing can produce as > consistant a "friction line" as any method I have tried and is faster on > the > bench than any of the others. What's not to like?. > Regards. > > > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>New year...new news. Be the first to know > what is making headlines. (http://www.aol.com/?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000026 > )</HTML> > > (snip)Consistancy is where its at in pinning. Pinning by swing can produce as consistant a "friction line" as any method I have tried and is faster on the bench than any of the others. What's not to like?. Regards. Ed Foote RPT What he said!! Mike -- I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright Michael Magness Magness Piano Service 608-786-4404 www.IFixPianos.com email mike at ifixpianos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090108/456cdec0/attachment-0001.html>
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