Bridge pin bit size -Phil Ford

[Farrell]

Where do they go.......if you bottom them?

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@cox.net>
To: <ilvey@sbcglobal.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Bridge pin bit size -Phil Ford


> 
> >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.
> 
> David,
> I drill just a little deeper than necessary and drive to finish height. 
> Contrary to nearly universal belief, bridge pins not only don't need to be 
> bottomed out in the hole, they won't stay there if you do bottom them.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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