Tuning Tip Threads

[Marcel Carey]

Hi Terry,

Now I'm confuse here. Are you talking about the tip or the head? The head is the part between the shaft and the tip.

I've had this happen to me and have come to have my tuning heads welded to the shaft (I didn't have a choice at the time since I was out of town and didn't have a spare tuning lever). I can still change tuning tips and I felt that I had gained control on the tuning pins. I found out that there was some play in the threads. Give it a try and let me know.

But now I've joined the Fujan gang and just love it. Wouldn't get out of the shop without it.

Marcel Carey, RPT
Sherbrooke, QC
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> From: mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Tuning Tip Threads
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:48:12 -0400
> 
> Do you know what the exact size threads are used in tuning levers & tips? It seems as though the tips that screw onto extensions are either Hale-type or Watanabe-type - and the threads for screwing the extension onto the lever/hammer shaft are possibly a third size. I need to know exactly what size these threads are so that I can purchase appropriate taps and dies to get me going again....
> 
> Or should I enter the world of Fugan (sp?) or - what's the other new-fangled carbon-fiber thick-shafted lever?????
> 
> Terry Farrell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joe And Penny Goss
> To: Pianotech List
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Tuning Tip Threads
> 
> Yes they are different and your shaft is not heat treated so rough tight pianos will strip the loose thread.
> Two or more issues I think invilved here. Metric and standard inch thread and wearing out of threading die.
> The Boston thread is the largest in diameter that I have run into and the Sole the smallest.
> Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr at srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Farrell
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 9:13 AM
> Subject: Tuning Tip Threads
> 
> I've managed to strip the threads of both my tuning levers this past week. I have a bunch of Hale and Watanabe tips. Are the female threads of the Hale tips different size from the Watanabe? It sure appears that way.
> 
> I've got all these tuning tip parts and nothing seems to screw properly to one another...... :-(
> 
> Terry Farrell
> Farrell Piano
> 
> www.farrellpiano.com
> terry at farrellpiano.com

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