Air Hammer

[Farrell]

Hey Tom! Glad your project met with success! You had me worried that I
swrewed up my piano but just could not see it! I'm curious what air
pressure(s) you were using. I found that you need 70 or 75 lbs. just to make
the thing work all the time. If you set it lower it would poop out under
hard/fast driving. 75 lbs. seemed to me to be ideal. Enough to drive a pin
in fast, and low enough that when you wanted just one or two slow pops from
the nailer, you had enough control to do just that. What did you find worked
well?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Servinsky" <tompiano@gate.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Air Hammer


> Jeannie,
> Hold on while me wipe the egg of my face...there!
> I must have sounded like Chicken Little..."the sky is falling" with
regards
> to the stock tip that comes with the Palm Nailer.  I should have never
> commented on the tip until I had a chance to use it.  I was simply passing
> on what I thought was useful information from the manufacturer.
>
> It does work great right out of the box.
> I personally can't find anything wrong with this tip.
> I strung a Mason & Hamlin A today and what a pleasure!!!!
>   In the meantime I will be calling the tech from Danair and tell him to
> stop telling piano rebuilders the stock tip is not suitable.
> Very Humbly Yours,
>
> Tom Servinsky,RPT
>
>
>
> In the meantime sorry
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:07 AM
> Subject: Re: Air Hammer
>
>
> > Hello guys!
> >
> >  "you didn't say what was wrong with the original tips and why they
can't
> be
> > used as-is." The tip that comes with the nailer appears to me to be
> perfect.
> > I used it just as-is and it worked perfect.
> >
> > ">I'm so glad you explained about the difference between installing
> > > with the coil on the pin or not.  I put the pins in first without
coils,
> > as
> > > I think Terry mentioned he does it, so I wouldn't run into a problem
> until
> > > later when I wished to even out the height with the coils now on the
> > pins."
> >
> > Like I said in a previous post: I put the coils on the pins before
> driving.
> > No problem with as-is tip. Obviously then, there will be no problem if
you
> > drive the pins first and then put coils on and then wish to even up coil
> > heights.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me why they think the tip that comes with the Daniar
> Nailer
> > does not work just fine out of the box?
> >
> > Hey, I just ran out to my shop to see exactly how the nailer tip sits
atop
> a
> > tuning pin. I put it on a coiled pin and pressed down, but of course
> because
> > the air pressure was not on, the tip compresses and kinda thuds to a
> > collapsed state - quite unlike when hooked up to an air supply. Anyway,
in
> > this condition, the collar does go down to the coil and actually rests
> upon
> > the coil. I guess I have to say that I don't know exactly how it rides
the
> > pin top during use. But I can say that I pounded a couple hundred pins
> with
> > string coils into a pin block with complete success using the tip as it
> came
> > with the Nailer as-is.
> >