Actually, you use an air wrench to wind the coils on the pin, then use an air hammer to drive the pins. Works great! APSCO makes a heavy duty star tip for the wrench and I believe the air hammer comes with a proper punch that you might want to hollow out a litte for the tuning pins. The tools you would buy at Sears or Trak Auto would be good enough. Carol Beigel >From: A440A@AOL.COM >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Subject: air hammers for stringing >Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 09:16:45 EDT > > ><<> Has anyone else tried an air > >hammer to install new pins??? How does it work????>> > >I have been wondering about this since the convention, when two techs told >me >this is the only way to go. > Are these air hammers the same thing you see advertised as "muffler >cutters", or air chisels? >Wondering is this is something I want to do. >Regards, >Ed > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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