Upright Stringing - Pressure Bar

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

Terry,


>I will be stringing an upright in the next few days. I have the pressure 
>bars off. Seems to me that it would be a lot easier to string up the plain 
>wire section, leaving the tension fairly loose, and installing the 
>pressure bars after the strings are on - would be much less restrictive 
>than dealing with the short segment of wire protruding from under the bars 
>if they were installed before hand. What do others do? Which way works best?

At 13:37 6/13/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>of course you are right.
>
>If you can find a pneumatic racket wrench you can use it to coil the
>tuning pins in the block (as done in some factories) before inserting
>them with the palm nailer.
>Isaac OLEG


Also, make sure the pressure bar screws are between the right strings and 
none of them are crossed..
DAMHIK...;-{



Conrad Hoffsommer, Decorah, IA

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