[pianotech] hour$ pinning

[Barbara Richmond]

Man, I need to go to your class!  :-) 



Barbara Richmond, RPT 

near Peoria, Illinois 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Mannino" <donmannino at ca.rr.com> 
To: pianotech at ptg.org 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:56:23 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: [pianotech] hour$ pinning 

Ed, 

My record, when actively repinning a LOT of actions at a certain 
manufacturer in the early 90s, was 50 minutes.  This includes removing the 
parts, repinning, and replacing the parts.   I had the help of a power 
screwdriver and the pressure to finish before going out to lunch.  I think I 
also put off going to the bathroom until I finished to give me extra 
motivation.  :-) 

I think your 90 minutes is a more reasonable good time to do the job, 
though.  I used to estimate that part of an action job for 2 hours, to allow 
for problems. 

Don Mannino 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <A440A at aol.com> 
To: <pianotech at ptg.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:56 PM 
Subject: [pianotech] hour$ pinning 


> Greetings, 
>   While we are talking about Barbara's pins, I wonder how much time it 
> takes 
> for us to repin a hammerline.  I got pretty fast at it, and Don Maninno's 
> pinning class certainly validated and improved some of my procedures, etc. 
> For 
> most important regulation work,  I now include repinning the hammerline as 
> standard procedure.  If I have to pin all of them, and there is no repairs 
> to be 
> done, like regluing splits or rebushing flanges,  it takes me about 90 
> minutes.  I bet there are younger, faster, techs around, so how much time 
> does it 
> take others? 
> 
> (I use a duplicator jig to remember where the string cuts line up before 
> removing all the hammerflanges, (sorta like Steve Jellen's jig of many 
> years ago). 
> I can then correct traveling as I reinstall them without losing my hammer 
> spacing.) 
> regards, 
> Ed Foote RPT 
> http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html 
> www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html 
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