Tips, tricks and tools

[Joe And Penny Goss]

Hi Bill,
I also have similar bouts of mu forgetter being stronger than mu rememberer
and with the same tool. My latest is made of a
3/4" x 4" square stick with a hole at its middle and the ends cut off at a
45%.
I tried the button idea but there were some pianos that the crack between
lid and pin block top was so wide that the button would slip through the
crack rather sudden like. Lots of potential bad things could happen.
So my latest uses the end cap of a 1" pvc pipe.
The cap is drilled to let a nylon cord pass through it and the stick with
knots to adjust the height of the lid.  12" cord 15 cents, cap
25 cents, stick 0 cents, one front rail punching cut in half to keep the
stick from scrarching or moving 0,  Materials total 35 cents.
Sometimes you can do it cheep<G>
oops honk honk geese you know.

Joe Goss
imatunr@srvinet.com
www.mothergoosetools.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <Maxpiano@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Tips, tricks and tools


> For years I have used a homemade vertical lid prop like the one described
in
> the Journal a few years back (pedal prop with sound board button and front
> rail punching on one end and going through a leather-padded stick on the
> other.
>
> As I occasionally forget a tool at a customer's home, this lid prop has
more
> than once stayed behind until the next visit, leaving me to come up with a
> substitute lid prop in the meantime.  In my junk box I found a likely
piece
> of metal to substitute for the leather-padded stick:  the top half of a
> broken pelican spring!  Glued a buckskin strip on it (after grinding the
> broken edge smooth and punching out a hole in the leather) and voila!
Added
> the other pieces and got a serviceable lid prop.
>
> Bill Maxim, RPT
> Maxim Piano Service
> Columbia, SC
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