newbie question: stocking strings

[John Ross]

They have a tool that is a strap, with a handle, that could do it with
the base in a vice.
It is a bigger version, of the oil filter remover.
Regards,
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "Avery Todd" <avery@ev1.net>
To: <mick@laughinggravy.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 7:41 PM
Subject: RE: newbie question: stocking strings


> Mick,
>
> I wish I had that problem. I have a complete set of metric and
American size
> wire, all in the metal containers. I recently tried to open one for
some
> reason
> or another and couldn't. Made me wonder how I was going to open them
when
> I actually run out of one of the sizes! Anyone have a suggestion? I
don't have
> vise grips that big! :-)
>
> Avery
>
> P.S. What is "splinging"? I love it! :-) It just about describes
what happens!
>
> At 10:01 PM 01/16/03 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > >>Get a half kilo roll of sizes 13 to 21 and nice containers to
keep them
> >in.
> >
> >Absolutely... but I for one hate those metal containers. If you
drop one and
> >it opens, the wire  coil jumps out, splinging eveywhere.
> >
> >I like to keep piano wire in waxed paper, coils held together with
garden
> >wire.
> >
> >Mick Danby CMIT
> >
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