---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Cool, easy, and simple. Just the way I like it!!!! Greg At 09:27 PM 6/23/2003, you wrote: >>I have a rather simple loop maker that I purchased from the late Bob=20 >>Russell Sr. It is both simple and easy to use. It produces predictable=20 >>clean coils every time but is not without the possibility of gaffe's if=20 >>your not paying attention to what you're doing. I'll give a brief=20 >>description of it's construction. The body of it is from about a 1 1/2"=20 >>hardwood dowel with a hole drilled through it longitudinally. In that=20 >>hole is placed a brass sleeve insert through which ultimately the wire=20 >>will pass on it's way to the looping end. There is another hole drilled=20 >>through it tangentially(?) which has a key pin ( I think) going all the=20 >>way through and protruding out each side to act as a handle to turn the=20 >>dowel around the string passing through it. At the business end is a=20 >>small tack or nail with a head driven in to one side of the brass sleeve.= =20 >>To use, all one does is to pass the string through the sleeve and out the= =20 >>other side. Using round jawed pliers make a loop in the string. Put the=20 >>end of the loop against and under the nail head and slowly rotate the=20 >>tool making the string end rotate around and thus giving you the coils.=20 >>The only problem I ever have with it is visualizing which direction to=20 >>rotate the tool for the desired outcome on the string. I like the tail to= =20 >>stop and rotate downwards against the plate. FWIW, I hope this helps=20 >>someone. If you need a picture just yell. >> >>Greg Newell > >I made one similar, years back, with a couple of differences. First, no=20 >cross handle. Second, the other end has a #7 wood screw driven in and the= =20 >head cut off, and a small screw driven in next to it as a wire guide for=20 >forming the loop around the #7 screw shank. The wire spring back sizes the= =20 >loop just right for the average hitch pin and you don't have to find a=20 >pair of pliers in your toolbox as well as the looper. Same size loop every= =20 >time, double loops if you're of a mind, with a minimum amount of wire to=20 >have to pull to tighten it on the hitch. > >Ron N > >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > Greg Newell Greg's piano Fort=E9 mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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