Hello David Love When you put the needle into your new Dremel will you leave the needle smooth and shiny - or will you take a fine emery to it to make it like a very fine needle file? I take emery to my broaches for cleaning out centre bushings - and indeed use a Dremel for that. Very fast acting it is. But that's for bench work with a rheostat power supply. I don't use the tool at full speed but slow as I can. But the thought of using a Dremel tool for those concrete Yam hammer felts is an interesting one. Have you considered the "Vise-grip" method? Please report your findings! Regards Michael G (UK) ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Love" <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Yamaha hammers > I've scheduled a major voicing of a Yamaha C7 with quarried hammers for > next week and finally broke down a bought myself a cordless Dremel > (actually Craftsman $29.99) for the job. You need to buy a 1/32" collett > to hold the needle. An extra battery doesn't hurt either. > > David Love > davidlovepianos@earthlink.net > >
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