I'm telling you guys, heat shrink tubing. clip it off, heat it, and it's tight at the bottom of the pin with a wall thickness of maybe 1 or 2 mils. No shadow. Plus, cut them a little long, and just grab the tip when you're done and they come of clean and easy. Really! William R. Monroe On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Joseph Garrett <joegarrett at earthlink.net>wrote: > Ron asked: "Something else. What do you folks do about hitch pins? Do you > > have birthdays while you mask and un-mask each one, or just > spray over them and blow off the chips after stringing?" > > Ron, > As I said before, pieces of player tubing w/just the very tip exposed. > Spray, (from ALL angles to avoid the "shadow") and remove. String and, > yes, blow the chips off. Then...touchup with a small artist's brush. > Definately does not require any "birthdays"!! > Joe > > > Joe Garrett, R.P.T. (Oregon) > Captain, Tool Police > Squares R I > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100301/3385e4ab/attachment-0001.htm>
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