Danair Palm Nailer #RN-16-8 http://www.danairinc.com/products.html Click on the RN-16 Palm Nailer. I ordered my direct from the above. Good luck! You'll love it. Terry Farrell Piano Tuning & Service Tampa, Florida mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@gate.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Air Hammer > Terry, > Where can the Danair Palm Nailer be purchased. I've been toying the idea for > some time. Too many rebuilds ahead to keep "hammering" away the old style. > Tom Servinsky > tompiano@gate.net > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 5:47 PM > Subject: Air Hammer > > > > Just tried out my Danair Palm Nailer #RN-16-8 for the first time driving > > three tuning pins into a pinblock. Holy cow cookies! That thing is slicker > > than you-know-what! > > > > Often as I drove a tuning pin by hand (with manual hammer) into a bare > > pinblock, I could see the damage I did to the top of the hole as the pin > > wiggled back and forth with each blow (hey, I'm a newbie!). I'm sure it > > continued throughout the driving process. The couple pianos I have > restrung, > > resulted in acceptable (for me - I had low expectations), but far from > > perfectly uniform tuning pin torque. > > > > The three pins I drove into a bare pinblock resulted in 160 in-lbs. torque > > for each one. Not 150, not 170, but all three were like exactly 160 > in-lbs. > > of torque. I had never done that before. Oh, boy, this has made my day. I > > can hardly wait until after I finish restringing and start > chipping/tuning. > > Clearly, I am expecting fabulous results. > > > > Thank you Del Fandrich and Roger Jolly (and anyone else that participated > in > > that thread - I know there were a few) - I recall that both of you use an > > air powered hammer, and one of you recommended the Danair specifically. > Man, > > you just drive those puppies straight down. I am just absolutely amazed at > > what a difference it makes! Fast, easy, and NO tuning pin wiggling. > > > > What do you use as a guide for tuning pin driving depth control? On my > bare > > test holes, I used an one-inch-thick piece of hard maple with a 5/16-inch > > hole drilled in it. I placed the maple guide over the tuning pin hole, > > inserted the tuning pin, and drove it with the Palm Nailer until it would > go > > no further. That worked perfect - for a bare block. Now I need to figure > out > > what to use when I am driving the pin through the plate into the block. > What > > does anyone use? Something hard to physically stop the Palm Nailer from > > going any further - or do you tape a stick or something to the thingee > that > > goes over the top of the tuning pin and just watch until it touches the > > plate or whatever? > > > > Can we adapt this thing for bridge pins - or just way too much horsepower? > > > > Terry Farrell > > Piano Tuning & Service > > Tampa, Florida > > mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com > > > > >
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