pins and needles

[jolly roger]

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Hi Wim,
              Get a box of the packets, at the frabric wholesalers, it worked
out to about 50c Canadian a package.  Wonder if sizes are different down
there,
I use #3 and #4's in my Yamaha tool?????????
It will suprise you how many you will use.
Regards Roger


At 07:55 PM 10/23/01 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> List 
>
> Now that I am taking care of university pianos, I am doing a lot more
> voicing.  More voicing means more needles. So I went to the local fabric
> store looking for 
> #17 needles, which is what I have been told is the right size for voicing. I
> found some, but they wanted $2.50 for 12 needles. As I was looking around, I
> found a box of 100 #17 straight pins for the same amount of money. Being the
> cheap skate that I am, it was a no brainer to pick the box of pins over the
> dozen needles. 
>
> But now I might have thrown away $2.50. (I took fifteen minutes to cut the
> heads off all of them, so I can't even give them to my wife to use in her
> sewing kit.) It seems that #17 pins are not the same thing as #17 needles.
> The first time I used the pins, they bent when I tried pushing them into the
> hammer felt. At first I thought I was doing something wrong, but every
time I
> put in new pins, they would bend with just one or two jabs. 
>
> Tomorrow I'll go back and buy the needles. So much for saving a few bucks.
> Any one with the know how why the pins bent so easily? I thought #17 is #17,
> like wire, regardless of whether it is a pin or a needle. But I guess there
> must be something more to it than that. 
>
> Wim 




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