shimmed tuning pins

[John Ross]

The strips allow you to fold the overhang against the plate. They also allow
for easy removal  of that excess, when the pin is in. Sometimes as you say
it is severed as the pin is tapped in, sometimes it is not. To remove the
one piece is harder to leave it neat.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia.
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: RE: shimmed tuning pins


>
> In a message dated 2/17/02 10:04:33 AM, jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca writes:
>
> << To stop the sandpaper from going into the hole, as I tap in the pin. I
> leave
>
> 1/2" above the hole, and cut it in 1/8" strips to the edge of the hole,
and
>
> fold it out >>
>
> I also left about a 1/2" out of the hole, but didn't cut it into strips.
It
> was severed by the pin as it was pounded into the hole and came off quite
> easily.  Why would cutting it into strips stop it from going into the
hole?
>
> Tom Sivak
>
>