This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Carl, If we are talking verticals here and stripping the whole piano, I = insert the strip above the dampers with my hand and then use a tool to = slip the inserted strip first between the damper felt and the strings = (carefully) ,then move it again into the space below the damper heads = and above the wooden part of the levers. The tool I use to do this is the steel bar sold by Schaff as a false = beat suppressor . There is certainly nothing wrong with any method that works for this = task, but this technique is quick and easily learned. Tom Driscoll ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Carl Teplitski=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 1:27 AM Subject: Re: Dumb Tuner moves -/ lost tool Tom -- howinell do you reach in to the treble section , and install = those felts ?? With your hand . =20 Carl / Winnipeg Tom Driscoll wrote: At 07:10 2/18/2005, you wrote: Carl wrote . . . slim, wood handle screw driver, which I use to insert the tuning felt. You use a screwdriver to push in the strip mute?? I've used a regular dinner knife, with tiny serrations for grip. It's strong, thin, and shiny . . nerver pulls the felt back out when moving to the next .----------------- Jim Kinnear You push a metal implement towards a soundboard? For years I've used recycled upright stickers which I've sharpened. No chance of scratching and the bottom end can be used to massage down new strings. I think the Journal CD should have my drawing of same from the early = '80s. Conrad Hoffsommer - Keyboard Technician =20 Tools? What tools? I don' need no stinkin' tool ! Seriously , I was taught to insert the strip with out any tools. With a little practice it's really pretty easy and done with one = hand. FWIW, Tom Driscoll RPT =20 _______________________________________________ pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/94/69/e4/89/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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