Hi John, Bill has certainly given us a lot of creative stuff, but this one wasn't Bill's original idea; he just marketed it when no one else did. Jim Harvey demonstrated it at a NCRC in 1986, and I think he said he stole it from Frances Mahaffey. Maybe Roger brought it with him when he came over via the ark, right Rog? (I'm gonna pay for that <g>.) Gina ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Musselwhite" <john@musselwhite.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 3:12 PM Subject: Re: Protek & Teflon > At 12:33 PM 8/6/01 -0500, Jolly Roger wrote: > > > One is a tube filled with balance rail punchings so they can be > >compressed nice and tight, add metal polish, and away you go. One end has a > >screw on cap with a hole in it. The other end has a screw on cap that has > >a shank to chuck into the drill. > >The second a similar design using F/R punching. But it is nonconcentric so > >the drill wobbles, enabling it to clean oval pins. > >I'll make some drawings for the T & T section of the Journal. Better yet > >I'll take some photos. > > It was a Spurlock tool... mentioned in the February 1988 Journal if no > where else. I don't see it in the current Spurlock catalogue. > > John > > John Musselwhite, RPT - Calgary, Alberta Canada > http://www.musselwhite.com http://canadianpianopage.com/calgary > mailto: john@musselwhite.com http://www.mp3.com/fatbottom >
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