Thank you Ed... I'll give it a shot on my training jig. Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:45 AM, <A440A at aol.com> wrote: <snip> > When I string, I wind the string on the pin before hammering in. > Then I hold the coil high (the coil, not me), on the pin as I put the > initial > tension on it, check string spacing,etc. This leaves the coil tilted > slightly > above the becket hole on the pin. I leave it there as I put full tension is > on > it and level the pin. With this tension on the coil, I then tap the top > down > level, the motion of which allows the coil to wind tighter on the pin as it > is > moving down to level. Then I use small vise-grips to smash the becket > tight > and massage the coil in the direction of the wind. This is another reason > I try > to leave all beckets at the 11:00 o'clock position, it makes them easier to > squeeze. > </snip> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090314/25fdc58f/attachment.html>
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