<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: = break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space;-khtml-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> I haven’t had that = problem. I’ve used their heads with a Bowman hammer I had and now a Faulk and use = Watanabe tips, they fit fine on both ends. I carry two lengths both 10 = degrees: one is overall length 2 Ľ” (with the tip) that I use for almost = everything. Occasionally I run into a grand with high struts or an upright where the pins are set = back under the lid too far. For those I use the longer one which with the = tip measures about 3 Ľ” . Haven’t found a piano yet that = presented a clearance problem for the longer one. I prefer tuning with as short a = head as possible.   <div> David Love davidlovepianos@comcast.net </div> -----Original = Message----- From: = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On = Behalf Of Jeff Tanner Sent: Tuesday, January = 24, 2006 1:13 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] = Tuning Hammers     <div> <div> On Jan 24, 2006, at 3:29 PM, David Love = wrote: </div> I like 10 degrees, though they are hard to find.  APSCO used to make = them and you can find them at Schaff still in the old APSCO = stock.  It offers good clearance with a shorter tip through the scale and still = gives that good semi-perpendicular feel.     David Love   </div>   <div> Problem is they don't fit anything.  = After I lost my Hale hammer in a classroom in college, I bought a rosewood extension = hammer from APSCO in 1992, but was too broke at the time to order extra heads = and tips.  It may have been old Tuners Supply stock, I don't know, but = the one extra head I had for my Hale hammer does fit it.  After APSCO began = making heads with the Hale logo, they changed the thread size or shaft size or something, and the newer APSCO heads do NOT fit my '92 APSCO or Hale or whatever hybrid it is hammer.  So, I bought a new APSCO hammer so I = could have more options with heads and tips, but was never happy with those = tips and then they sold out to to Schaff.  Now that Schaff owns the brand, = as far as I understand, they are only tapping the heads to fit the Schaff = threads and they don't even match up with Schaff hammers and the threads get messed = up the first time you crank them down tight. </div> <div>   </div> <div> I ordered the head I have as a 15 degree, but = I think its more like a 10 and I love it.  I like it much better than the = other 15 degree heads I have.  But a 5 degree head now feels almost like = it's a negative angle.  I only use that with my 7 inch = handle. </div> <div>   </div> <div> I miss Tuners Supply. </div> <div> Jeff </div>   <div> <div> Jeff Tanner, RPT </div> <div> University of South Carolina </div> <div>  = </div> </div>   </div> </body> </html>