Man, I need to go to your class! :-) Barbara Richmond, RPT near Peoria, Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Mannino" <donmannino at ca.rr.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:56:23 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [pianotech] hour$ pinning Ed, My record, when actively repinning a LOT of actions at a certain manufacturer in the early 90s, was 50 minutes. This includes removing the parts, repinning, and replacing the parts. I had the help of a power screwdriver and the pressure to finish before going out to lunch. I think I also put off going to the bathroom until I finished to give me extra motivation. :-) I think your 90 minutes is a more reasonable good time to do the job, though. I used to estimate that part of an action job for 2 hours, to allow for problems. Don Mannino ----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A at aol.com> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 5:56 PM Subject: [pianotech] hour$ pinning > Greetings, > While we are talking about Barbara's pins, I wonder how much time it > takes > for us to repin a hammerline. I got pretty fast at it, and Don Maninno's > pinning class certainly validated and improved some of my procedures, etc. > For > most important regulation work, I now include repinning the hammerline as > standard procedure. If I have to pin all of them, and there is no repairs > to be > done, like regluing splits or rebushing flanges, it takes me about 90 > minutes. I bet there are younger, faster, techs around, so how much time > does it > take others? > > (I use a duplicator jig to remember where the string cuts line up before > removing all the hammerflanges, (sorta like Steve Jellen's jig of many > years ago). > I can then correct traveling as I reinstall them without losing my hammer > spacing.) > regards, > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html > <BR><BR><BR>**************<BR>A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See > yours > in just 2 easy steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220439616x1201372437/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc% > 3D668072%26hmpgID%3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)</HTML> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090401/a95af797/attachment.html>
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