I second William's recommendation of heat shrink tubing. Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: William Monroe <bill at a440piano.net> To: joegarrett at earthlink.net; pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Mon, Mar 1, 2010 1:47 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] finishing plates 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/d440c212/attachment.htm>
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