Hi gang, First off, if your drill press chuck won't take a couple of hundred times more side stress than you can apply with a file to the shank of a regulating tool, you are in deep trouble and considerable danger in trying to use it for *anything*. Why not chuck the regulating tool in your power hand drill and spin the shank against the bench grinder wheel (running)? You have good positive control, your hands are out of the way, and spinning the shank while grinding maintains concentricity and makes for a quick and pretty job. Besides, you get to run TWO power tools at the same time! Ooh, ooh, ooh. Ron >>Looking for something thinner than the standard combo handle jack >>"screwdriver" regulating tool. (Thinner in the shank, that is, because on >>Yamaha C3's for example, it's tough getting between the letoff dowels to >>adjust the jack screws). >> >>Is the Pianotek JJS-1 this item? >> >>Rob Stuart-Vail >> >> >> >Rob, > > If you don't find the tool you need, just make it yourself. >I've adapted tools many times, a few for exactly >the reason you mention. > Get a tool with the proper tip then thin down the shaft >on a bench grinder. Grind away only as much as you need to. >For regulating, the thinner and weaker shaft won't matter, but >for screwdrivers it will. > I like this method better than the mentioned drill press >and file, which puts side pressure on a drill chuck that >expects in-line forces. > When grinding a tool shaft, please be careful. The shaft wants to spin, >so hold it with clamping pliers, use the tool rest (but don't let >the tool slip between the tool rest and the grinding wheel), >and Mr. Mom says wear eye protection, short sleeves, and gloves (don't >ask me how I know). > >Mitch > > Ron
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