With the results of the surveyabout repinning that I posted twice coming in, I'm noticing a very interesting divergence of opinion on the topic of reaming out the holes of an old pinblock when repinning. (This is on a stand-alone repinning job, where each pin is backed out one at a time, then immediately replaced - not a repinning/restringing job where all the pins are removed, then replaced some time later.) Anyway, here are sample comments from 2 technicians who sent me information about the way they repin. Technician A: "No reaming is required as when the new bigger pins are driven they ream the block. The block will be uneven if your ream." Technician B: "I will always drill out the block for new pins. I don't feel like I can get consistent torque any other way." Huh? So which way is it? I'm very interested in your thoughts. So far, it's running fairly even between the reamers and the non-reamers. I think this would be a good topic to toss out for discussion. If it's been aired in the recent past, I apologize, but I don't recall seeing anything about it as of late. Thanks to all of you who have sent me your thoughts concerning my survey, by the way. (If any of you haven't done so, but intend to, please do it soon so I can incorporate the results in the article I'm working up.) Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090621/7412d291/attachment.htm>
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