To Ream or Not to Ream?

[John Ross]

Yes, Gordon, that type of brush should work, if you want to use a brush.
As you suggest, a few sizes would be needed.
What is the price of these brushes?
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter" <lclgcnp@yahoo.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: To Ream or Not to Ream?


> Well, I got the long gun-cleaning tool handle, with
> the "T" end, that these little brushes screw iunto.
> With that it is easy to yank and push the thing.
>    But I used brushes a little smaller than the hole,
> and pushed and puled them so that all surfaces were
> all cleaned of junk and roughed up. Definitely don't
> put them in a drill. And buy several, if this is what
> you want to try.
>     Thump
> 
> 
> --- Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>> I tried the brush thing once. I found that the darn
>> thing wears down after a 
>> few dozen holes - so your holes come out different
>> sizes, depending on the 
>> state of wear on the brush. Just didn't do it for
>> me. I think that ended up 
>> being the first time I tried plugging a pinblock -
>> because the brush thing 
>> worked so poorly (for me anyway).
>> 
>> Terry Farrell
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Dean May" <deanmay@pianorebuilders.com>
>> 
>> > Seems like if you were to chuck it up and spin it
>> in a slow cordless
>> > drill you should be able to remove it while it is
>> spinning.
>> >
>> > Dean
>> > Dean May
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
>> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>> > Behalf Of John Ross
>> >
>> > I did try the brush thing, but I did not have much
>> success.
>> > The brush I had was a twisted wire type of shaft,
>> and the handle, if it
>> > had
>> > one, was not a secure one. I don't remember if it
>> had one, it was a long
>> >
>> > time ago.
>> > Anyway, I twisted it and got the brush in the pin
>> hole, but I couldn't
>> > get
>> > it out, without a lot of trouble. Reason being the
>> bristles were
>> > pointing
>> > out of the hole, and dug in, when I tried to
>> remove it. Almost like some
>> >
>> > animals teeth, the grab, and you have to rip to
>> get free.
>> > If it originally had a handle, it pulled off, when
>> trying to remove the
>> > brush. It was the one from Pianotek TPB-1.
>> > I never did get it to work right. Mind you, my
>> methodology, might have
>> > been
>> > wrong. But how can I be wrong, you push it in, and
>> then pull out.
>> > Except, it
>> > wouldn't come out.
>> > John M. Ross
>> 
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