hammer shanks

[Newton Hunt]

Digitals are a bout $100 and more.  Balance scales can be had from Edmund's
Scientific for from $20 and up to several thousands.  Go digital they are the best
for our type of work.

		Newton

John Ross wrote:
> 
> Speaking of scales for weighing.
> They seem to be quite expensive.
> Has anyone found a reasonably priced one, that will do the job?
> Regards,
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> piano.tech@ns.sympatico.ca
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Newton Hunt" <nhunt@optonline.net>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:24 AM
> Subject: Re: hammer shanks
> 
> > Weight is a good idea but I repin _after_ I have finished
> messing with them, like
> > hanging, shaping, filing, etc.  That "pathetic" is attributable
> to some of my "mis"
> > handling.
> >
> > I wish I still had a scale again...
> >
> > Newton
> >
> > Richard Brekne wrote:
> > >
> > > Newton Hunt wrote:
> > >
> > > > _I_ sort them by pin tightness.
> > > >
> > > >                 Newton
> > > >
> > >
> > > I used to...but now I sort them after their weight ala
> Stannwood. I repin anyways
> > > as I have found stock pinning to be often as not rather
> pathetic. On just about
> > > any given set of grand shanks I have ever purchased well half
> of the centers were
> > > bad in one way or another.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Richard Brekne
> > > RPT, N.P.T.F.
> > > Bergen, Norway
> > > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> >