getting punch(y)ings

[Farrell]

Hi Tommy. I use a 1-ton chain fall for pulling plates. I have three soft nylon straps with open loops at the ends that are about 3 feet long. I find three places on the plate to loop one end around and then draw them together like a "tee pee" and loop them onto the chain fall hook. However, just like that, the plate will often be unbalanced. So I tie a nylon line to one of the straps to lengthen it and loop the line through the hook and then just tie it off wherever it makes the plate balance. You can get it pretty good just by snugging up the chain fall - taking the slack out of the nylon straps - and then just make any adjustments you need to. Once you get it balanced (really only takes a minute or two) you can preserve the adjustment and go in and out, in and out with the plate always well balanced. Works for me.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bigeartb@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: getting punch(y)ings


> Wilem:
> I used three pullies attatched to each side and back of the harp and as you 
> described to beams. I pull one and then the other. I miscounted the number of 
> bolts on this piano......there are 9...nine. I must suspend this harp from 
> one source as you said because I will never level the harp to allow it to 
> slip over the bolts. I like to have never got it out because of the torque 
> from one pully to another. I hope you are right...it will just slip right 
> over the  bolts without too much trouble. WHEN YOU USE THE COME ALONG, DO YOU 
> USE ONLY ONE SUPPORT STRAP TIED  IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HARP OR MULTIPLE STRAPS 
> TIED LIKE A "TEE-PEE"? I have always used the three pully system but have 
> always only had one nose bolt to contend with. This may be my very last piano 
> to rebuild. It has been the piano from Hades...Pin Block ..two piece...bolts 
> from bottom..24 bolts 12 of which were too rusty to remove easily...pin block 
> shipped to Schaff for reproduction....first man ..hospital for 
> pancreas....sent to #2 man....hospitalized for heart trouble....finally 
> somebody made it.....it don't fit.... I think I'm going to have a heart 
> attack. This week...I don't like "piano fixing".
> 
> Tommy Black
> Decatur, Ala.