I'm having a hard time visualizing this... I often end up having to pry my coils UP with a coil lifter. You say tap it DOWN to level. It sounds like it results in a much nicer coil than I sometimes wind up with, so can you clarify? Thanks much Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:49 PM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote: <snip> > I do this by putting full tension on the wire while the coil is still > slightly above level, ( one reason that protruding becket ends are > unwelcome). > Then I tap it level so that it can tighten as it is moving down the pin. > Level > means the hole opposite the becket is half covered by the top coil,(another > reason for not protruding). Follow that with a squeeze on the becket and > twist > the coil firmly in the direction of its rotation, (counterclockwise on a > grand)(another reason for not protruding). Much faster settling. > </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090313/771642cf/attachment.html>
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