Bridge pin bit size -Phil Ford

[Ron Nossaman]

Hi Dale,
With the size bit Pianotech provides (#46), you'll find it hard enough to 
drive a #7 pin into a laminated cap without bending it, much less going a 
size smaller. The stuff's tough. I agree about #6 pins. I won't put #6s in 
at all unless there's just not room for #7s and still get the strings in 
between them. I've also come to the conclusion that 1" pins aren't doing a 
thing more than 3/4" pins except needing a deeper hole and being more 
difficult to drive without bending. Remember when 3/4" pins came with nice 
hemispherical ends that you could actually start in a hole, instead or the 
squared ends with barely broken edges that we buy now? Who supplies pointed 
end 3/4" bridge pins, and why not?

And no, I'm not interested in driving the 1" ones 1/4" short and trimming 
the excess. <G>

Also, epoxy or even thick CA makes a better driving lubricant than McLube, 
and adds some extra support of it's own when it cures.

Ron N