Accu hitch pins

[Ed Sutton]

  Basicaly it says use a rocker gage and feeler gages to duplicate the 
original bearing; do not increase the downbearing.
  A Lowell gauge would be easier to use.
    Ed

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>From: Jeff Tanner <jtanner@mozart.music.sc.edu>
>To: caut@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Accu hitch pins
>Date: Fri, Aug 9, 2002, 8:16 AM
>

> Ed, Ray,
> I asked them to send me that information last summer and they sent me the
> instructions for using a Lowell Down Bearing Guage.  Not exactly what I was
> expecting from the "write to the factory for instructions" commandment in
> the Baldwin Service Manual.
>
> Which brings me to why I asked them for that info in the first place.  Are
> you guys really tedious about downbearing measurements when replacing
> single broken strings with the Accu-Just hitch pins?
>
> Jeff
>
>>Ray-
>>Contact Baldwin and ask for the little instruction booklet.
>>If they don't have any more, I'll send you a photocopy.
>>Ed Sutton
>>
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>>>From: "Breakall, Raymond" <rbreakal@richmond.edu>
>>>To: "'caut@ptg.org'" <caut@ptg.org>
>>>Subject: Accu hitch pins
>>>Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2002, 8:41 PM
>>>
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I am about to restring a Baldwin SD with accu hitch pins. Can some kind soul
>>> give me info on how to do this?
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>> Ray Breakall
>>> Piano Technician
>>> University of Richmond
>>> Richmond, VA
>>> (804)287-6342
>>>
>
>
> Jeff Tanner
> Piano Technician
> School of Music
> 813 Assembly ST
> University of South Carolina
> Columbia, SC 29208
> (803)-777-4392
> jtanner@mozart.sc.edu
>
>