This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Well now that I've slept on it and had the morning of work to reflect on = it there's no good reason (at least regarding the stress on the action = center) you can't score the shank while you have the butts off (if using = old parts, if using new ones it won't matter) for knurling or cleaning. = But I still don't like it, and I'm stickin' with the hole in the molding = technique. Please pardon the OCD. Chris Solliday=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Paul Chick (Earthlink)=20 To: 'College and University Technicians'=20 Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 12:15 PM Subject: RE: [CAUT] vertical hammers =20 Subject: Re: [CAUT] vertical hammers =20 In a message dated 7/16/2005 10:26:45 AM Central Standard Time, = jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes: I have seen, at a convention class, or the list, or the Guild = magazine, a=20 gizmo for scoring the shank, to allow, trapped air to escape. I think it was a piece of wood, with a hole drilled in it, the size = of the=20 shank, then it had a screw in it, where the point was into the hole. You just inserted the shank, and it was scored to the depth the = point was=20 out. John M. Ross I inherited from my dad a shank knurler. It is a disk with groves in = it, that is attached to a crank. It has a curved piece of metal parallel = to the disk, that can be adjusted with a set screw, to allow the = distance between the disk and the curved metal piece to vary. (for = different shank sizes, or more or less knurling). You can attach it to a = bench with screws, or a clamp. He probably got it when he worked for = Stark.=20 =20 I use it when I replace a whole set of shanks. When I do just one, I = use a pair of pliers, to gently knurl the shank.=20 =20 Wim=20 =20 I've been using a shank knurler from Schaaf for about 25 years. I = think it's still available. It's adjusted to size the shanks to a = uniform diameter as well as knurl the shank. When glue is applied (any = water based glue), the shanks swell back almost to their original = diameter, making a very nice fit without excessive glue squeeze out. =20 Paul C ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/13/85/d7/96/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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