Damp Chaser quality & cool tools

[Annie Grieshop]

Following Dean's lead, I scurried right off to WallyWorld to get one of
those handy-dandy 7-in-1 screwdrivers!  $3.97 plus tax around here, and it
does indeed include seven different toolnesses.

Even more amazing, however....  Because I really was looking for pliers that
would make spinet jackspring R&R a pleasure (they do exist, right?), I
wandered a bit further into the store to check out what was available in
Sporting Goods, the site of previous Cool Tool plier finds.

And what did I spy this time?  A pair of 8" Stainless Steel Pliers with
"Built-in Tuning Slots".  How could I pass those up?  I accosted total
strangers in my search for the meaning of "built-in tuning slots", but
nobody seemed to know what it meant.  But I couldn't pass 'em up, so into my
toolkit they go!  (The section of the pliers that I'm guessing are the "b-i
t s" remind me of the notches and crimpers found in wiring pliers.)

The question now is:  how will they help improve my tuning?  What part will
they play in my passing the exam?  And what is a tuning slot, anyway?

Annie G.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean May [mailto:deanmay at pianorebuilders.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 7:58 AM
> To: 'Pianotech List'
> Subject: RE: Damp Chaser quality
>
>
> >>We used to sell what we called a "pin-peg setter"
>
> Thanks, Roger, for making a truly quality product. I just installed a
> vertical system yesterday and this latest generation is the easiest to
> install ever. And it is a very reliable system. I had a customer last week
> tell me to come out and look at her system because the light wasn't on. I
> told her to check the power source as these things just don't break. She
> assured me the circuit was working. Well it was a bad receptacle. The
> circuit was working but that particular outlet wasn't.
>
> My favorite tool in my case is a cheap 7-in-1 screw driver from
> Wal-Mart. It
> only costs about $3 and I have a dozen of them around the house,
> too, always
> one within a short walk. It has both sizes of straight and
> Phillips bits. It
> also has a 1/4 nut driver, 5/16 and a 7/16 nut drivers.
>
> The 5/16 nut driver makes a perfect push pin setter and the soft rubber
> handle makes it easy on your palm to whack it into the wood.
>
> It also comes in handy as a lid prop. You can get a whole variety
> of lengths
> out of the thing by removing the bit, pulling the sleeve partially out, or
> pulling the sleeve all the way out. And putting the rubber end on bottom
> against the pin block or cabinet is not going to slip.
>
> Dean
> Dean May             cell 812.239.3359
> PianoRebuilders.com   812.235.5272
> Terre Haute IN  47802
>