Matthew, Look in the welding section, there should be some rod there that works just peachy. If not, try a hobby shop, they tend to carry smaller scale rod and tubing. William R. Monroe On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Matthew Todd <toddpianoworks at att.net>wrote: > In the July, 2009 journal, there is a procedure for replacing upright > hammer butt springs. In the article it explains slipping a steel rod > through the coil of each spring. > > I will be replacing a set of springs on a spinet soon. I went to Home > Depot and the smallest diameter steel wire was still too big to push through > the coil of my sample spinet spring I had with me. > > Any suggestions are appreciated, thanks! > > ***TODD PIANO WORKS* > Matthew Todd, Piano Technician > (979) 248-9578 > http://www.toddpianoworks.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100822/63f60e7b/attachment.htm>
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