Roger Thanks for the tip. I'm just starting one of these jobs and thought of using vacuum hose but it's too big. And I hadn't thought about the pin lengths, figuring they are all the same length out of the bag. Paul Chick ----- Original Message ----- From: jolly roger <baldyam@sk.sympatico.ca> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 11:53 PM Subject: Pin depth. > I tried some thing new today. Drilling a bridge cap to install new pins. > How to drill all the holes to the same depth so I don't have to file the > tops of the pins to make them even. > I used 3 layers of heat shrink sleeving on the drill bit, to both mark the > depth and act as a depth collar. > It's availiable in a variety of bright colour's, I chose yellow, does the > job very accurately. > You need to stand the pins on end together to sort, and toss out, the odd > short or long pins. > Heat shrink sleeving is availiable from Radio Shack or good electronics > suppliers. > > Hope this is useful > Roger >
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