Bridge pin bit size -Phil Ford

[David Ilvedson]

Ron,

Excuse my inexperience...it has been a long time since I put in bridge pins.
When last did that (26 years ago) we used nails of the appropriate size (pointed of course),
cut them off over long and drove them in.  Finishing off by filing.  If you aren't
going to file to even out bridge pin height, does that mean that every hole is exactly
the same depth?  That a pin won't go in little farther than its neighbor?

David I.






----- Original message ---------------------------------------->
From: Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Received: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:54:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Bridge pin  bit size -Phil Ford

>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

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